1250411 - Substring search is not working

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Marketplace Graveyard :: Search, defect)

Description

[Madalin Cotetiu]

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open marketplace stage homepage: https://marketplace.allizom.org/
2. Tap the search magnifier and perform a search using a common substring (i.e. search for "ound" ).

Expected results:
Search should display all apps/addons containing "ound" in their title, i.e "Sound Cloud".

Actual results:
No results are returned.

Verified in FF44(Win7, Android 4.2.1) FFOS 2.6(Flame) Issue can be reproduced in mp-dev, stage and production.
Screencast for this issue: http://screencast.com/t/1NX4KK2t

Comment 1

[David Durst [:ddurst]]

We don't actually have substring searching. We have fuzzy and prefix matching.

The endings of word substrings are far less likely to find results than substrings that are the beginnings of words. Example: "ound" will find less than "soun" (which should return almost as much as "sound").