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Search: '&' vs 'and' vs ' and '
I am not sure if there is anything we can improve here. 1and1 only matches because of the URLs in the web and sources properties of those records, not because of the 1&1 in the name.
Thus: If you know a keyword that users will use to search for a company but that isn't included in the name (or one of the other fields we search), our current implementation requires adding that to the runs key.
If you really expect 1 and 1 to match, we would need to introduce an additional (computed) field that does some processing, like:
- common character to word replacements (like
&->and, or the other way around) but no idea how to handle i18n in that case - additionally surround special chars with spaces (
1&1->1 & 1) - probably run the first thing again for your search to actually work.
I don't think that is feasible. You would probably be better off asking Typesense to implement the features you are looking for. Related:
- https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/95#issuecomment-586542829
- https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/122
Also semi-related and a great request: https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/133
With https://github.com/datenanfragen/data/pull/1705, we're most of the way there.
Now, we're only waiting for https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/133.