By Boletus on

Hi

I've search the forums and learnt that wildcard searching was removed for better database performance. Instead you're supposed to use stemming, the Porter Stemmer module I guess. But what do you recommend for a non-english site? The porter stemmer algorithm is english only.

The current search functionality is not that good to be honest. If I search for Bradykard, I get nil results. If I search for Bradykardi, I get them all. When you have a site with a lot of difficult words, the exact word search of Drupal 5.0 isn't very user friendly.

Any suggestions kindly appreciated.

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Boletus’s picture

Boletus commented

Hello? :) Do I exist? Probably not. That would explain a lot.

theotter’s picture

theotter commented

I'm just looking into this, as well. I was surprised that a search for "dentist" doesn't turn up "dentistry."

Are there any add-ons to provide results for almost-hits?

steve1234’s picture

steve1234 commented

Surely there must be a way to enable wildcard searching? Exact word searching is a terrible user experience!

pyg77’s picture

pyg77 commented

subscribing.

Can't believe that we could'nt choose to use wildcards or not... Porter Stemmer is quite good, but only for english websites... :-(

Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented

Please issue a feature request for this.
I dont think the developers will read all forum topics.

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Joep
CompuBase, Drupal websites and design

Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented

And here it is:
http://drupal.org/node/103548

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Joep
CompuBase, Drupal websites and design