Is the search function reviewing ALL revisions?

When testing the search capabilities, I was curious to see how the location searches worked since the location field is freeform text.

Initially, jobs with a location of “MN” (the abbreviation for the state of MN) would only be found if the user searches for MN.

I changed one of my test jobs to be Duluth, Minnesota. When searching for “MN”, that job continued to show up, but also showed up when I searched for “Minnesota”. When I deleted “Minnesota” from the location and reverted to “MN”, the job still shows in search results when searching for “Minnesota” even though that text is no longer shown in the job, anywhere.

I’m curious as to why this is happening.

As a feature request (e.g. should there ever be a more advanced version of this plugin) I’d love to see employers/locations having more robust support.

E.g. see the “Venues” and “Organizers” capabilities of “The Events Calendar” plugin, https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/the-events-calendar/, which allows for venues and organizers to be saved independently of events. The result is that an editor can select from an existing orgranizer and/or venue when creating a new event for the calendar. Both the organizer, and the venue, have fully formatted location data (e..g. street address, city, state, zip, country etc.). That level of granular data makes sense when it comes to searching for a job, and having something like the state not be free-form would be helpful.

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