578302 - Search for substring "god dam" finds neither of two results

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Input :: General, defect)

Description

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

I don't know if there's a real use-case here, but http://input.stage.mozilla.com/search/?q=god&product=firefox finds both "god dammit" and "god damnit" feedbacks; if you do a substring search for "god dam", it finds neither:

http://input.stage.mozilla.com/search/?q=god dam&product=firefox

Comment 1

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

I assume there are no substring searches, just stemming. That means, "awe" does not find "awesome", but "rock" finds "rocks".

Dave, am I getting that right?

If so, this is expected.

Comment 2

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

This is expected.

AMO works without stemming so this won't happen, but since we're more often than not using natural language, stemming makes sense.

Comment 3

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Agreed. Thanks for keeping us on our toes though, Stephen.