Feedback needed on the Search function

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I didn’t take screen shots and then I did something that will skew results, so sorry.

But, I was looking for this thread: Colleges that increase merit - if you haven't yet accepted

I tried these different searches:

  • Schools that give more scholarships if you wait

  • Schools that give more money if you don’t commit

  • Schools that give more money if you wait to commit

  • Colleges that add scholarships to students who wait to commit

With that last search, the result was maybe like the 10th, or something like that.

I just bumped the post, however, and added in all my search terms to make it easier for others to find, so when I pressed my “back” button (after looking for this thread) to take a screen shot of what my results had been), the language I added in the search button made the thread jump to the first search result.

Obviously I wasn’t using quite the same terms as the title, but perhaps there’s a way of doing some key word linking/fuzzy matching (sorry, I’m not a technical person) to link together scholarships - money - merit, or something like that. And I’m assuming this could be true for other things (like schools - colleges - universities). Just my $0.02.

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