How can we improve Jira search?

[Simon Tavanyar]

Jira search is broken.

If I search in a project for a text string, it generates entries which do not have that text string. That makes the search useless.

Why does a good product like Jira have such a useless search? Can someone point me to a Jira response on this?

[Johan Soetens _Dumblefy_]

Hello Simon,

Search syntax for text fields might be helpful

This blog post also has a great JQL cheat sheet.