User search oddities

[altenbach]

I don't quite understand the user search algorithm. It seems to miss certain partial queries.

Look at the following user searches as an example:

1. "Dennis" 69 matches (OK)
2. "Dennis K" 0 matches (???)
3. "Dennis Kn" 0 matches (???)
4. "Dennis Knu": 3 matches (OK)

What happened in case 2&3??

[Laura F.]

Yeah, that's a little strange.  I've passed it along to Lithium.

Thanks,

Laura
Web Support & Operations
National Instruments

[waldemar.hersacher]

That's normal behaviour of search engines. One and two letter words are normally ignored even in phrases.

[smercurio_fc]

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waldemar.hersacher wrote:
That's normal behaviour of search engines. One and two letter words are normally ignored even in phrases.

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That may be true in general, but it's not what's specifically happening here. If you search for "de", for example, you will get results. It's only when you have 2 words, and one of them is less than 3 letters.