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polkaroo

05 Oct, 2011 02:11 AM via web

Interesting issue. Doing the following search produces different results.

underworld - rise of the lycans (not found)
underworld rise of the lycans (found)

Does it work this way by design?

  1. 2 Posted by polkaroo on 05 Oct, 2011 03:32 AM

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    To expand on this, I have troubles searching using the following strings for all of these movies that are in the database:

    Afro Samurai - Resurrection
    Batman Beyond - Return of Joker
    District B13 - Ultimatum
    Family Guy - Dark Side/
    Family Guy - Blue Harvest/
    Fantastic 4 - Rise of the Silver Surfer
    Final Fantasy VII - Last Order
    Green Lantern - Emerald Knights/
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1
    Death Note - L - Change the World
    Punisher - War Zone
    Resident Evil - Afterlife/
    Resident Evil - Degeneration/
    Transformers - Dark Of The Moon/
    Transformers - Revenge of the Fallen/
    Underworld - Rise of the Lycans/
    X-Men Origins - Wolverine/

  2. Support Staff 3 Posted by travisbell on 05 Oct, 2011 05:48 PM

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    Hi,

    I’ve attached ticket #9 to this thread. It deals with this issue and is known to be a problem. Basically, the dash (-) is turning that query into:

    “underworld” WITHOUT “rise of the lycans”

  3. 4 Posted by polkaroo on 25 Nov, 2011 03:25 AM

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    Ah. OK. Having ":" works, but if I include this in the name, my client (xbmc) messes up the directory name. Difficult to fix?

  4. 5 Posted by MovieHolics on 28 Nov, 2011 08:21 PM

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    Hi Support Stuff,
    is there any indication, when the ticket #9 will be processed?

  5. Support Staff 6 Posted by travisbell on 29 Nov, 2011 04:03 PM

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    Hi MovieHolics,

    I’ll try to have a look at this issue late this week. I’ll update this thread with details.

  6. 7 Posted by dape82 on 11 Jan, 2012 08:12 PM

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    Hello travisbell,

    please let me know which programming language you are using. Maybe I can show you an example of the search algorithm mentioned in #170 ( NOT the SoundEx algorithm).

    Regards,
    Daniel

    (Sorry I did not find any possibility to PN you)

  7. Support Staff 8 Posted by travisbell on 11 Jan, 2012 09:31 PM

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    We’re using Solr to handle all of our searches at the moment and the Sunspot library in Ruby.

    We do a couple of things like:

    • Boost exact matches to the top
    • Use ngram searches for partial matches

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