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Adjusting Sensitivity of Search Queries in Typesense

TLDR Sruli asked how to modify Typesense search query parameters. Kishore Nallan clarified and suggested changing the drop_tokens_threshold to 0.

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Sruli

06:46 AM

Hey, right now when I search the query is very loose and will find something as a hit even if just 1 of the words in a sentence are somewhat matching for example

If the I query for “There was a storm last night” and in Typesense the value is “There are many dangers when traveling by boat, such as stormy nights.”

This will return a hit because of storm/stormy being similar, is there a way to adjust what counts as a hit?

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Kishore Nallan

06:47 AM

Typesense first tries to fetch results that contain all results verbatim, and will proceed to relax the query only when such results are not found.

06:49

Kishore Nallan

06:49 AM

It does that by looking at typos of the words and also by dropping tokens from the query. If you don't wish to drop any tokens you can set drop_tokens_threshold to 0

Sruli

06:49 AM

First off, thanks for your quick and insightful reply!

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Sruli

06:49 AM

Can you elaborate on the drop_tokens_threshold part tho?

Kishore Nallan

06:53 AM

See here: https://typesense.org/docs/0.23.1/api/search.html#typo-tolerance-parameters

Sruli

07:07 AM

Thanks!

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