Issue Summary

Jira Server search syntax for text fields documentation indicates that users can boost a term in order to make Jira return more relevant search results. Details in Search syntax for text fields: Boosting a term: ^

The problem with this section is that this does not appear to be true in the current versions of Jira Server today.  Boosting a term does not at all change the order in which the issues are returned in Jira, nor does it affect the number of issues returned by any JQL query.  Hence it appears to be doing nothing today.  In addition to this, it appears that Jira Cloud documentation has already acknowledge that 'boosting a term' using a caret ^ does nothing anymore and is unsupported, see https://support.atlassian.com/jira-core-cloud/docs/search-syntax-for-text-fields/.

In turn I suspect that Jira did once behave in this manner, but it does not appear to be doing so in any of the recent versions where we have documented this (at least as far back as Jira 7.3 we have this documented).

Steps to Reproduce

1. Try to follow the examples in Boosting a term

Expected Results

I would expect that either the number of results will vary by boosting a term OR the order in which those results are returned would be in some way affected by boosting one term over another.

Actual Results

There appears to be no difference whatsoever in the search results when boosting any term in a text field search in JQL (either advanced or basic JQL searching)

Workaround

None