Search returning Sounds like

Hello,

I have a confluence space with about 180 pages. I'm finding that most of the searches return results that "sound like" my search term. As a result, some of the pages that have an exact match are pushed to page 2 and beyond when the "sounds like" results are included. See below for an example when i search for a term "Market-based"... I get back search terms for "target" since target sounds like market I'm guessing? The same happened for me when I searched for "building", I got back results containing "billing".

Is there a way to turn off this functionality? While I can see how this might be useful if a user mistyped the search term, there's no indication in the results that it's showing results that "sound like" the search phrase.

thanks

Steve

Steffen Burzlaff May 25, 2021 08:43

Hi Steve,

thanks for reaching out. This feature is called "fuzzy search" so the search will also provide results which are similar. Those results should always be shown below the direct hits. So in your case only 2 results would be returned. Is this what you would expect?
Currently there is no option for the user to control the fuzzy search.

Best Regards,
Steffen

Steve Foster May 26, 2021 23:12

Hi Steffen,

Thanks for your response. I've been in touch with your colleague, Laura and she explained a bit about your search method as well.

I agree that if the "fuzzy search" results were shown below the direct hits, that would be ok, but that's not what I'm experiencing. I've created a video to show this to demostrate the experience.

It would be great if the user had the option to turn off "fuzzy search", or even better would be to use the Confluence search and only return results that are restricted to the content sources since Confluence does a pretty good job of search already.

Thanks for your help!

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