I understood, perhaps incorrectly, that sphinx search engine unlike drupal seearch has google like capabilies, i.e. it would search for plurals by itself. In other words, if I search for “motorcycle” it should find matches of motorcycles in addition to motorcycle. It doesn’t seem to do that. How can I make it search plurals?

The search can be found at www.pico-car.com/search-content

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markus_petrux commented

This is more a question related to Sphinx engine and its features. Please, review the options of your sphinx.conf file.

http://www.sphinxsearch.com/doc.html#confgroup-index

There are several options that allow you to setup how text data will be indexed. You may wish to try using the morphology option to enable stemming. But you may also wish to tweak a few other options such as min_word_len, charset_tables, etc.

When changing the sphinx.conf file, it is often required to restart the searchd daemon, and it is also probably required to rebuild all indexes.

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VinayKAgarwal commented

Yes, I had to enable "morphology = stem_en" in the configuration file. It works now. :-)

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markus_petrux commented
Status: Active » Fixed

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markus_petrux commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)