Equalizing Search Results for Words with Similar Stemming
TLDR Jayesh asked how to balance search results for words like "syringe" and "syringes". Jason suggested using Typesense's typo_tokens_threshold. Jayesh confirmed the suggestion worked.
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Sep 18, 2023 (2 months ago)
Jayesh
02:01 PM
Jason
02:22 PMSo if users search for "syringe" those exact matches will always show up higher than "syringes".
If a user searches for "syringes", if you set
typo_tokens_threshold=10000, then you should see more matches for "syringe", if there are less than 10000 results with "syringes". But these typo corrected results, will still show up below the exact matches for "syringes"Jayesh
02:24 PMJayesh
02:27 PM1
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