Hello all! I'm trying TypeSense out as an alternative to what we're currently using, Algolia. One thing we use Algolia for is advanced employee search and one of the really intuitive things about Algolia is that using the

prefixAll

setting we're able to search for employees using common nicknames or shortened versions of names, for example when searching for an employee named "benjamin johnson", it is common for people to search "ben johnson" because that is what they know the person as. This works well in Algolia and doesn't return other irrelevant results such as other people with the last name "johnson" or the first name "ben". I'm having trouble achieving a similar result in TypeSense without also returning lots of irrelevant results or having other results match higher. Any initial thoughts?

@Timothy Smith Typesense currently only does a prefix search on the last word in a set of words in a search query. This exact name search use case came up recently for another user as well. Could you open a GitHub feature request for this, so we can track demand?

Ah, very interesting solution. I'll give that a try and I'll definitely be opening a Github feature request. I appreciate the guidance @Jason Bosco!