: To be clear, no clean way to do *expansion* as opposed to reduction at : query time, when the alternatives are of different lengths.
Reduction at query time doesn't work either ... when query parser sees the string: my best buy ...it analyzes each white space sepearted string seperately, so a synonym reduction of "best buy"=>bestbuy won't ever be triggered. As i said, this is all covered in the wiki. (it's probably the topic in the wiki with the most complete coverage: multi word synonyms it kicked my ass up and down the street about a year ago) -Hoss