Is Spotlights ability to search web content limited to one word searches?

I have my website setup and Spotlight enabled.
I have several thousand pdf documents indexed and would like to be able to search them by "Content" "Contains or equals".
The problem is, that when I search using 2 words that I know are contained in several documents, the results returned are 0, yet searching with 1 word yields plenty of results, I really need to be able to narrow my results down by being able to search for more than 1 word at a time.
Thanks for your help.

This is normal, because some environments have servers with names like intranet. When your DNS returns a plain 404, Firefox then sends the word to your preferred search engine. But if the DNS service sends back its own results page, that preempts the normal behavior.
Perhaps there is an add-on to work around this? I do not recall seeing one, but you can search here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
For many years the address bar search was called the keyword service, so in addition to other queries, you might search for add-ons related to keywords.

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