JaapRood/fuel-search — Issue #5: Add "loose terms searching" to support multiple words searches
Author: JaapRood
Created: 2012-02-22 19:25:01+00:00
State: open
Labels: feature

As discussed in issue #1, right now the search results for multiple words are very inaccurate. As a base for multiple words searching, we're starting of with loose terms searching.

This means that when people search for more than 1 word, the search phrase will be split on spaces. A similarity score will be calculated for each single word separately after which the scores will be added up to result in one overall score.

This approach should make searching for multiple words a lot more accurate than it is now. However, with this approach, the context of how the words will appear will not matter. When searching for "we love pie" an entry containing "we really love apple pie" will score just as well as "love is awesome. we rule. let's eat some pie". Support for this will be added later on.