Magento code changes in local don't work - magento

I'm trying to fix the Magento search issue where 'OR' is used for comparison of multiple search terms instead of 'AND'.
I've seen quite a number of suggestions on the web regarding how to fix this, and the general idea is as follows:
Copy
app/code/core/Mage/CatalogSearch/Model/resource/Fulltext.php to
app/code/local/Mage/CatalogSearch/Model/resource/Fulltext.php and in the copy, change the instances of 'OR' to 'AND', where the SQL queries are built.
However, my changes don't seem to work as expected and what is even more confusing is that the prepareResult() method (which is where the SQL changes above are made) doesn't even seem to run at all when searches are done. I've tested this by putting some debugging code in the function.
I've used the same debug code to verify that the file gets loaded. But the debug code doesn't run when inserted at the prepareResult() function. (The debug code basically writes to a file on disk).
What am I missing here?
Kindly note that this is not so much about the right way to accomplish the end goal of fixing Magento search. I'm aware it's best done via an extension. I'd just like to figure out why prepareResult() isn't being called as expected.

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