plone/plone.app.search — comment on commit 7402bd3fdd427b53bc3314e45f04c4c50003415e
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By toutpt:

It's not really confusing once you have a use case:

1. You are typing something, in the livesearch results you have your item, no need to validate the search, click the result you want.
2. The livesearch get you results that do not correspond to your search.
type 'auto' in livesearch will return every content with automobile automatic, auto... but if you just want the 'auto' word you want only document which content auto. More you can add the * by yourself, users are quite used to this. May be this could be voted or discussed on the core ML. I'm agains't a change like this one without a discussion. It change the behavior of Plone.

livesearch is not search, this is why it has a different name.