Search sort order problem

Hi,

Paying user here. This search plugin allows us to search products by tag, title, custom fields etc which is great. However, I have two tags one is ‘male’ and one is ‘female’. If I search for male it brings up all the female products too because it does a ‘search within’ which is fine, but the whole word matches should be sorted to the top first. Is there some way we can change the sort order or maybe restrict the search plugin to only match whole words?

It doesn’t do my users much good if they search for ‘male’ products and then are presented with all of the female products first.

Is there any work around for this? or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,
Jennifer