Duplicate better search

[mammt 5]

Hello, The search feature should have some enchantments. Currently, the search system is very strict with exact matches, which leads to situations where some movies or shows aren’t displayed unless the exact formatting is used.

For example:

• Searching for "spiderman" yields no results, but searching "spider-man" works as expected.
• Searching for "starwars" shows no results, but "star wars" displays all relevant content.
• Similarly, if i search for "Storia d inverno" or "Storia inverno" it shows no result, but "Storia d'inverno" it shows the movie correctly.

Could the search algorithm be updated to handle these cases?

i think an algorithm to get the % of the similarity beetwen 2 texts should be used to handle such cases (something like FuzzySharp)

thanks!

Edited December 28, 2024 by mammt

[Luke 42077]

Hi, so this is all related to spaces and being able to search with or without them?

[mammt 5]

45 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi, so this is all related to spaces and being able to search with or without them?

Sure, but also to search for like ‘wars’ and it would come up with all the ‘star wars’ movies etc

[Luke 42077]

5 hours ago, mammt said:

Sure, but also to search for like ‘wars’ and it would come up with all the ‘star wars’ movies etc

That already works just fine.

[mammt 5]

5 minutes ago, Luke said:

That already works just fine.

 true didnt check that, then yes to ur question before, but also with some similarity stuff u can search for like ‘str wars’ or ‘star wrz’ etc… and the similarity would be higher than 50% and stuff like that

Edited December 29, 2024 by mammt

[ebr 16169]

Hi, there's already an open request for this or something functionally equivalent. Please join in and contribute to the existing discussion at: