Carles Briansó wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I make a little test, and found a strange behavior
> 
> # tracker-search debian
> 
> trackerd> Executing search with params Files, debian
> trackerd> searching for debi with smin 0 and smax 9, offset 0 and limit
> 512
> 
> # tracker-search debie
> 
> trackerd> Executing search with params Files, debie
> trackerd> searching for debi with smin 0 and smax 9, offset 0 and limit
> 512
> 
> # tracker-search debiean
> 
> trackerd> Executing search with params Files, debiean
> trackerd> searching for debi with smin 0 and smax 9, offset 0 and limit
> 512
> 
> The result of the 3 searches is the same.
> 
> Using other termination the result is correct
> 
> # tracker-search debion
> 
> trackerd> Executing search with params Files, debion
> trackerd> searching for debion with smin 0 and smax 9, offset 0 and
> limit 512
> 
> 
> This is normal?

yes its called stemming - see 
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/stemming/general/

so a search for "penguins" would be stemmed to "penguin" and all word 
variations of penguin would match. Think of it as a slightly fuzzy search.


-- 
Mr Jamie McCracken
http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/

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