[ic] "Fuzzy" searching

[Grant]

> > > > Has anyone implemented Swish or any other method for "fuzzy"
> > > > searching?  Swish describes fuzzy searching this way:
> > > >
> > > > Word stemming, soundex, metaphone, and double-metaphone indexing for
> > > > "fuzzy" searching
> > > >
> > > > I'm mainly interested in dealing with the plural/singular problem.
> > > >
> > > I am using "FuzzyIndexingMode Stemming_en2" with Swish-e on my RTFM
> > > website.  No problems at all.
> >
> > I'm actually hoping to search the title and description fields of my
> > products table.  Would Swish work well for that or is it mainly
> > designed to crawl and index HTML pages?
> >
> There are no "pages" in the RTFM website.  All of the text is in
> various database tables.  Crawling tables is just as easy as crawling
> HTML pages.  In fact, it's quicker and easier to select from a table.

Nice.  Do you use it for speed and fuzzy searching?

> > Besides fuzzy searching, I'm eager to get something to match the
> > search "big widgets" to the description "big blue widgets".  I'm
> > currently using op=rm to search and it doesn't seem to make that
> > connection.
> >
> I use "op=aq", and I'm happy with that.

I installed Text::Query::Advanced but op=aq doesn't seem to be
working.  Is there any special configuration that needs to be done?

- Grant