Hi, I want to do a fuzzy search and always return documents no matter what the score. So, to do this, I'm tried sorting by strdist() in solr 3.1. It worked great and does ALMOST exactly what I wanted. The problem is that the algorithms supported jw, ngram and edit are not the best fit for my scenario.
The best results come from StrikeAMatch ( http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Development-Cycles/How-to-Strike-a-Match/). So, I've found this link https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2230 that implemented what I wanted. But I was told that I should use trunk because there were some really great news about fuzzy search there. I read this article explaining some changes http://blog.mikemccandless.com/2011/03/lucenes-fuzzyquery-is-100-times-faster.html. But I still don't think it replaces the StrikeAMatch algo, because that one can have best results in searches like "abc" comparing to strings like "abc company inc" (distance > 2). But still, Fuad Efendi told me that StrikeAMatch is toys for kids compare to the state of lucene trunk. So here I'm, I want to know how 4.0 will help achieve what I want. Thanks.
