So, as feedback, I don't see the issue identified in my subject line mentioned anywhere that I thought to look in.
I was trying to search for the exact string "5-axis" with the "+" qualifier, and got a much larger items list than I expected. It seems that the search engine is interpreting the "-" (dash) as a field separator for search strings, rather than as part of the search string specification.
I tried using "+5-axis" on only the Path/CAM forum, I got 1230 matches, most of which did not include the specific "5-axis" identified with the "+".
When I did that on the Wiki forum, with "search" and "results", I got 20 matches that did not seem to touch on the "quality" of the search results.
But those results included one item, https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... ts#p165036 which seemed to touch on one of my favourite methods for searching, substrings, but for myself, I prefer the use of word heads, to allow for different noun/adjective/verb spellings.
When I looked for "+search +results +engine", I was again disappointed but, as counter-intuitive as it is, I may start doing what one posting https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... ne#p336910 identified as a better strategy for pin-point results, using Google to search the site.
For those who might be interested, Google provides better search results if the "https://" is not included in the quoted string for the site's domain.
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"5-axis" "forum.freecadweb.org/"