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Adjusting Typo Tolerance in Search Results

TLDR Sean asked how to reduce irrelevant search results. Jason explained how to adjust the typo tolerance feature. Kishore Nallan elaborated on upcoming changes, to which Arthur requested further tunability. Kishore Nallan confirmed such configuration will be available.

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Sep 22, 2021 (26 months ago)

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Sean

06:57 PM

Hi. Is if possible to hide non relevant results? Like with a search of “tag” - a “tub” result comes up below the “tag” result — thx

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Jason

07:09 PM

Sean That's the typo tolerance feature kicking in.

You can reduce its sensitivity using one or more of these search params:

typo_tokens_threshold, num_typos, drop_tokens_threshold

Sean

09:51 PM

Awesome. Thx

Sep 23, 2021 (26 months ago)

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Kishore Nallan

12:32 AM

Sean In the next version of Typesense we have made the typo tolerance more sensitive to prevent mis-searching in small words. We are enabling 1-typos only from 3-letter words and 2 typos from 7-letter words.

Sep 27, 2021 (26 months ago)

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Arthur

02:32 PM

Kishore Nallan Do you think the feature of "1-typos only from 3-letter words and 2 typos from 7-letter words" could be tuned

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Arthur

02:33 PM

My user makes some many errors typing it is incredible ! I am afraid that 2 typos from 7 will be too little

Kishore Nallan

02:34 PM

Yeah we will make it configurable so as not to break backward compatibility.

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