Topic on Help talk:CirrusSearch

Hi. In case I want to search (fuzzy search) two words with a word to fit in but not the exact sequence of the two words, is it possible? For example I want "flowers for Algernon" to be in findings but not "flowers Algernon".

Hi,

Unfortunately no, you could do an approximation by using a negation: "flowers Algernon"~1 NOT "flowers Algernon".

The first part would find documents with flowers algernon or flowers for algernon and the second part would exclude documents matching flowers algernon.

In the end you might find pages that have occurrences of flowers for algernon but not all of them. If a page have both forms flowers for algernon and flowers algernon it would be excluded.

Thank you. It works for me.

Hi, I saw that you contacted me on IRC but I responded too late.

We don't have immediate plans to improve this kind of queries and implement the feature you need so I would suggest to file a new ticket at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ (tagging CirrusSearch) to describe your usecase.

Thanks!