Pascal CESCATO

I saw picture on canardpc, but I tested my website on two computers (Win / Linux) with all major browsers, and I didn’t have the same problem as you had.

Internationalization is not needed in free version as strings that have to be translated are in Pro (admin area) and Ultimate versions (admin area & counting). If you need search terms highlighting with a better excerpt, and a counting in google mode, you can either get the Ult. version, either search for plugins which are available on wordpress plugins directory. At least you’ll have more relevant results, and the engine is ok for small blogs or blogs where there’s not a lot of search queries.

In the other hand, the paid editions (both) offer some enhacements, but not on search itself: search will be faster as it’s stored in session – so you can do twice the search, it will only be performed once, and all searches are stored in a table for a faster use between two blog updates (table is truncated every time a post is added, edited or deleted). The Ult. ed. offer this, and extra as you noticed.

For test purpose I tried to have the most approaching configuration with Relevanssi and my plugin, means AND switching to OR, and I tested AND without switching to OR. Most relevant results where with second option, so I choose it.

My plugin doesn’t ask for AND / OR choice, as it logic is: first I try a full string search, after I do the same with each term, with AND. And if I’ve no result after that, i finally try a search with OR.
Some ponderation, and that’s done.

You say that you can, in Relevanssi, search for a sentence. Right. But as I do not mention that – on my own blog – I use Relevanssi or WP-ISE or WP-Search2, and as visitors don’t care – they just want relevant results – I’ve done the search in the simpliest way, for dummies too.

For comments, I did’nt include them in search, as I’ve asked a lot of people not involved in blogging or web programming: ‘oh no! when I’m searching on a website and that I come to a post wich contains what I’m searching for only in comments, I return to google immediatly.’ was the global answer. So when I choosed not to search in comments, it was according to normal people, not you and me… When I choosed not to offer many setting options, that was because I tried to have an ‘everybody / lambda visitor’ centric approach on how I built my search engine.

Well, i think you wanna say: You can get for free more things than this paying plugin offers….
But can you say me why you’re so sweet with this plugin? At least did you tried it?
If not, you may have a look to this post: https://www.wp-ise.com/wp-ise-versus-some-other-search-plugins/.