Searching plurals

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Last Post: March 17, 2009 (RSS)

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By Gooder - March 16, 2009

When I search on my site for plurals (i.e. knives, versus knife) I can't find the item. How do I fix this? It should be simple, but I can't figure it out.

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By ross - March 16, 2009

Hi Gooder

Thanks for posting!

The searching is done on the words you enter so if you want to find articles with the word "knife" in them, you have the enter "knife".

Searching for "knives" isn't going to return articles that only have "knives" in them because that would be a completely different word.

Does that make sense? Let me know if you need anymore detail on this one :).

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By Dave - March 17, 2009

One thing I'll add to this is that a simple and effective approach to this problem is write up some search tips that are displayed when no results are found, such as suggesting searching for non-plural versions or words, etc.

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By zip222 - March 17, 2009

Another approach would be to add an extra field to the records that the site manager can use to attach additional keywords to each record. This field won't be displayed anywhere on the public site, but it can be used for the search queries.