Magento search not returning expected results

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Published on 2009-12-23T16:13:12Z Indexed on 2010/04/16 10:43 UTC
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Our site, www.wearport.com (sorry - I'm not trying to post this for links stuffing/ad'ing! It's necessary for this question), uses search for users to find products in our catalog. We use the search widget in the admin to gauge how successful users are with searching for products. "Missed searches" are revised with synonyms and redirects as they are identified.

The issue is that many of the nominal searches don't work correctly. By "nominal" I mean terms that are prominent in the product - title, description, etc. If you search "fleece" it brings up sweatshirts and fleece, but the fleece is item 9 instead of

I know that more sophisticated indexing will be available in later releases, but I would think that this should work correctly OOTB.

Do I need to do further configuration of code and/or database?

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