Search results feel very incomplete for almost all searches

Search seems to be functioning oddly in a few ways in our community.

The search parameters feel very tight, overall, and aren't returning posts that clearly have the keywords being searched for. In the images below, you can see that only one result is returned when I search "book" in our community, and a different result is returned when I search "books". So that makes me think that the search service has extremely tight parameters set, and a lot of useful posts aren't being returned at all - even when searching for a word inside a post title that was posted yesterday.

The very limited number of relevant posts returned when searching also makes it feel like there's very little content in our community, even though we have thousands of posts and replies, and many that mention the word "book".

Wondering if there's anything that can be done to improve search results in general. Thanks!

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