Searching plurals
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Last Post: March 17, 2009 (RSS)
By Gooder - March 16, 2009
When I search on my site for plurals (i.e. knives, versus knife) I can't find the item. How do I fix this? It should be simple, but I can't figure it out.
Re: [Gooder] Searching plurals
By ross - March 16, 2009
Hi Gooder
Thanks for posting!
The searching is done on the words you enter so if you want to find articles with the word "knife" in them, you have the enter "knife".
Searching for "knives" isn't going to return articles that only have "knives" in them because that would be a completely different word.
Does that make sense? Let me know if you need anymore detail on this one :).
Thanks for posting!
The searching is done on the words you enter so if you want to find articles with the word "knife" in them, you have the enter "knife".
Searching for "knives" isn't going to return articles that only have "knives" in them because that would be a completely different word.
Does that make sense? Let me know if you need anymore detail on this one :).
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Re: [Gooder] Searching plurals
By Dave - March 17, 2009
One thing I'll add to this is that a simple and effective approach to this problem is write up some search tips that are displayed when no results are found, such as suggesting searching for non-plural versions or words, etc.
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Re: [Dave] Searching plurals
By zip222 - March 17, 2009
Another approach would be to add an extra field to the records that the site manager can use to attach additional keywords to each record. This field won't be displayed anywhere on the public site, but it can be used for the search queries.