[Developers] RFE: fuzzy search

Shug Boabby shug.boabby at gmail.com
Fri Jul 18 10:37:29 UTC 2008


This RFE got lost in one of my posts from a few days ago. Copied here.

It would be awesome to be able to send off a "fuzzy text match" query.
I tend to use combinations of "a:key~=" etc, but it would be really
really good to be able to basically do a search engine style search
across the keys that can perhaps do simple things like stemming of
words, removal of stop words, rearranging words, minor spelling
corrections, alternative words and arbitrary dropping of some words in
longer queries... like one would expect from a search bar. I believe
Apache Lucene does much of this. As a solid example, I would like it
if a search for "smashin pumpkins" [sic] would return "The Smashing
Pumpkins", or if a search for "The Queen of England" would include
Elizabeth_II_of_the_United_Kingdom" along with
"Elizabeth_I_of_England".


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