[BUG-10694] [SLM Beta Search] Marketplace Beta includes unrelated listings to the search results

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Steps to Reproduce

Testing the new MP search function.

Actual Behavior

I was testing the new MP search function, searching for a name I use for some of my own listings, Coniston. The result showed up all the 15 listings on MP using that search word but also four that didn't have any connection to it at all.

Expected Behavior

I expceted the search engine to omnly list actual matches not a number of other seemingly randomly selected listings.

Other information

Links

Duplicates

• [ ] https://github.com/secondlife/jira-archive/issues/2676

Original Jira Fields

| Field | Value | | ------------- | ------------- | | Issue | BUG-10694 | | Summary | [SLM Beta Search] Marketplace Beta includes unrelated listings to the search results | | Type | Bug | | Priority | Unset | | Status | Accepted | | Resolution | Accepted | | Reporter | ChinRey (chinrey) | | Created at | 2015-11-13T16:56:34Z | | Updated at | 2017-05-08T22:56:04Z | ``` { 'Business Unit': ['Platform'], 'Date of First Response': '2015-11-13T11:12:48.854-0600', 'ReOpened Count': 0.0, 'Severity': 'Unset', 'System': 'Website', 'Target Viewer Version': 'viewer-development', 'What just happened?': "I was testing the new MP search function, searching for a name I use for some of my own listings, Coniston. The result showed up all the 15 listings on MP using that search word but also four that didn't have any connection to it at all.", 'What were you doing when it happened?': 'Testing the new MP search function.', 'What were you expecting to happen instead?': 'I expceted the search engine to omnly list actual matches not a number of other seemingly randomly selected listings.', } ```

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Whirly Fizzle commented at 2015-11-13T17:12:49Z, updated at 2015-11-13T17:15:00Z

Looks like it's using fuzzy string matching. One of the unrelated items has con liston in the title & the other three have COZI Ston. The four fuzzies are listed at the bottom when searching by Relevance.

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Grumpity Linden commented at 2015-11-13T18:32:10Z

Hi ChinRey, thanks for all your feedback - on the forum and here. Whirly's right, this is fuzzy matches getting a little too excited. We're going to tweak the value of those as well as make some additional changes based on everyone's feedback. As soon as we get those changes deployed, we'll update the forum with new info.

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Grumpity Linden commented at 2016-06-01T00:18:32Z

No more fuzzy results on Boolean searches!

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ChinRey commented at 2016-06-03T11:55:26Z, updated at 2016-06-03T11:58:01Z

I don't know about Boolean searches but I'm afraid there are still a lot of fuzzy results in regular MP searches. There is a thread on the forum about applier outfits for gorean freewomen right now, so I decided to take a look at MP to see what actually exsited. Three searchwords: maiterya gor freewoman

125 search results in the Women's Apparel category, the vast majority of them has no relevance to the search whatsoever. This is not keyword spamming, I checked the source code for some of the listings and the words gor and freewoman were nowhere to be found.

Edit: Tried to include a link to the search results page but had to remove it - seems JIRA doesn't like the kind of loooooong URLs MP produces.

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Whirly Fizzle commented at 2016-06-07T05:38:55Z, updated at 2016-06-07T05:39:11Z

Edit: Tried to include a link to the search results page but had to remove it - seems JIRA doesn't like the kind of loooooong URLs MP produces. You can use a URL Shortener like https://bitly.com/

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Whirly Fizzle commented at 2016-06-07T06:08:26Z

Hmm your 125 search results appear to be the results when using legacy search. Search term maitreya gor freewoman - results in woman's apparel

Legacy search - 125 results: http://bit.ly/24vaS7l Beta search - 502 results: http://bit.ly/1UDcwkJ

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Grumpity Linden commented at 2016-10-17T23:01:45Z

We shipped a change that allowed us to disable fuzzy matching, and flipped that switch a week ago. So far, I've seen no negative effects in our metrics, so I'm inclined to keep it off.