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Limitations of Typesense Search Functionality

TLDR Luke faced issues with searching specific words in Typesense. Kishore Nallan explained that Typesense supports only prefix search.

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Jul 29, 2021 (28 months ago)
Luke
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Luke
02:42 PM
For example a string "thissentence contains words". If I search for contains it works, if I search for sentence it doesn't
Kishore Nallan
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Kishore Nallan
02:43 PM
Typesense supports only prefix search.
02:43
Kishore Nallan
02:43 PM
So you can search for 'this' and it will work.