Oren Yosifon writes:

... phrase searches ... Can anyone help me ?

URL:http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope/near.pat is a patch that made near searches work ages ago for me. The patch is old (against Zope 2.1.6). As todays ZCatalog is quite different, it will not be easy to apply the patch to modern code. You only have a chance, when you are quite familiar with Python. Dieter