> hashes don't lend themselves well to stemming for use in text-based searching I didn't get this completely. :) This was something that hadn't been solved us

> hashes don't lend themselves well to stemming for use in text-based searching I didn't get this completely. :) This was something that hadn't been solved using geohashes. Intention was to just bring out 'geohash'y of solution to proximity search.