I agree about the fussiness and mystery of good values for minimum match,
but the requestor wanted 100% all the time. That is easy.

I think spell suggestions are harder than search, so "assume great spell
suggestions" is not a good fix for a bad default (all terms).

wunder


On 8/2/07 11:13 AM, "Daniel Naber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thursday 02 August 2007 18:46, Walter Underwood wrote:
> 
>> Use the minimum match spec for a flexible version of all-terms
>> matching.
> 
> I think this is too difficult and unpredictable. I also don't know how I
> should justify a setting like "75%", just because it maybe works fine for
> some examples.
> 
>> One wrong or misspelled word means no matches, and searchers don't
>> know how to fix their query. If they couldn't spell it the first time,
>> why should they be able to spell it a second time?
> 
> That's what the spell checker is for.
> 
> Regards
>  Daniel

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