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One of the big mysteries of the software industry. Not specifically singling out reddit here, since I don't even search on reddit: Why can we not simply have se
by zelphirkalt 3y ago
One of the big mysteries of the software industry. Not specifically singling out reddit here, since I don't even search on reddit: Why can we not simply have search functions, that at least optionally do a substring search? If I had a $currency-unit for every search that fails at this basic thing, I wouldn't need to work any longer.
- Mountain_Skies 3y ago"Users don't know what they want" is absolutely pervasive in the tech world.
- icdtea 3y agoSearch the same thing rephrased slightly differently 5 times to find the right result, and I can show you 5 sets of ads related closely to the topic of your search.
- kevincox 3y agoOff the top if my head I can think of two reasons. 1. Doing stemming is hard with substring search. 2. Substring search is more expensive. (Bigger indexed and more joins/merges)
- mike_hearn 3y agoBecause you can't implement that with efficient data structures like posting lists.