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User request: make 'Tom Tugendhat' an effective search term

Open MyfanwyNixon opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

A user writes:

Firstly, thanks so much for the work you do - it's vital to democracy in the UK.

One quick suggestion - add "Tom Tugendhat" as an alternative name option for Thomas Tugendhat, so he shows in search results:

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/search/?q=Tom+Tugendhat <-- Currently does not return him

ie. implement it in the same way that appears to have been done for Steven Baker - he comes up if you search for "Steve Baker"

MyfanwyNixon avatar Jul 08 '22 10:07 MyfanwyNixon

We don't do anything clever here. Steve Baker comes up because Steve is a substring of Steven. e.g. https://www.theyworkforyou.com/search/?q=Thom+Tugendhat works. This is a duplicate of https://github.com/mysociety/theyworkforyou/issues/72, it is a long standing issue.

dracos avatar Jul 08 '22 11:07 dracos