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EXHIBIT. text search only searches complete phrases #132

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
Rather than searching for key words, the text search facet searches for
exact wording within fields. I guess this is consistent with the idea of
filtering, but not so much with the idea of searching. Anyway, a possible
improvement for the future.

For example, say that I have the two items below:

country: Bolivia
school level: "primary plus"
indicator: "educational attainment"
label: "Bolivia educational attainment (primary plus)"

country: Bolivia
school level: primary
indicator: "net enrolment rate"
label: "Bolivia primary net enrolment rate"

If I did a text search for 'bolivia primary' (no quotes) it's reasonable to
assume that I would like to get both of these items. However, 'bolivia
primary' will only return the second item, because the search phrase is
included within the label. See http://epdc.org/test/maps.html for the
example given above.

[Submitted by Sarah O on simile.mit.edu] 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by GabrielR...@googlemail.com on 4 Apr 2009 at 5:02

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by GabrielR...@googlemail.com on 4 Apr 2009 at 7:01