Mysql Fulltext search question

[dilcher]

I am doing a "non boolean" normal fulltext search in my database of text articles.

When I do a non boolean search for just:
wanda

I get something like 11 hits.

When I do a non boolean search for:
A fish called wanda

I get something like 1000 hits.

Is this normal? Shouldn't the longer query be more restrictive and give back less results?

Maybe my mistake is thinking everything in my query should be in the returned "hit". When I looked at the results, many of those 1000 hits actually didn't have the word wanda in them.

So, in a non boolean fulltext search, words in the query don't really have to be in the resulting hits?

Confused!