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