When stemming is turned off by placing a word in double quotes, the pages are correctly listed, but on the search results page, sometimes stems in the snippet are still indicated in bold. This only happens when turning off stemming of the //base// word.
Matching works perfectly when turning off stemming for the word that is //not// a base word.
For example searching for `"clouds"` (in quotation marks) shows
cloud clouded and **clouds**
as it should.
But searching for `"cloud"` (in quotation marks) shows
**cloud clouded** and **clouds **
but only if the page has //cloud//, and only if the stemmed terms are in the snippet.
Matching is esp. important because trial and experimentation work is required for volunteers to develop the CirrusSearch documentation. The Help:CirrusSearch page is still lacking in information, The Help:CirrusSearch pageand its talk page areis mostly vacantunresponsive.