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Search results should boost title matches

A search for "Wattpad purge" brings the first two results as

1. * Wattpad (section Wattpad Purging as Moderation Increases)
2. * Wattpad Purge 2024

reasonably enough, boosting on title phrase matches

A search for "purge Wattpad" brings back

1. Wattpad (section Wattpad Purging as Moderation Increases)
   created Wattpad Press Releases The Watty Awards, Wattpad's annual writing contest accessed 2010-7-24 Wattpad Content Guidelines wattpad.com/about Wattpad statement
2. Lemon (section Wattpad)
   recently, it experienced a resurgence on Tumblr following the NSFW Content Purge of late 2018. TV Tropes has this to say about the spread and usage of "lemon"
3. Timeline of Fandom Purges and Site Restrictions
   Stripe and PayPal. (March) Wattpad deletes numerous stories, many of which include smut or queer content, now covered in Wattpad Purge 2024. (April) "No public
4. FanFiction.Net (section The Purge of NC-17 Content: 2002 and 2012)
   content. When the purge completed, 90% of the General forums were empty. The site took no action about forums with no posts prior to the purge. It completely
5. Spirit Fanfiction
   attention. Is constantly involved in controversies, such as attempts to purge content Yaoi and LGBT, banning authors, staff harassing the site users, numerous
6. Wattpad Purge 2024 (section Wattpad Moderation Announcement)
   fanfic, old and new, slash and het. Wattpad announcement, retrieved 2024-04-10 archive.is 2024-04-10 https://www.wattpad.com/user/Fanfic/conversations archived

As per best practices in relevance and this example, the search engine should be tuned to boost the rank of items with multiple query term matches in title after phrase matches but before general matches. --msilverstar (talk) 03:24, 18 April 2024 (UTC)