Library serach engine misspelling issues

Daniel Wurzberg

So,

I was surprised this morning when I did a search in my library to find out that the case of Darell Bock turned 0 results, and Darrel Bock all 75.

What is the case for this? I would hope it used some kind of fuzzy model in case search results turned zero by going direct from the input box. On the other hand, if I got the last name right, first name wasn't an issue at all as you can see in the image bellow.

NB.Mick

1. Your search doesn't ask for first and lastname, but for two distinct words coupled by implicit AND which may occur anywhere in the metadata (thus would e.g. fire for two authors Darrell Smith and John Bock)
2. Logos search implicitly works as a "beginning of string" comparison. Thus Darrel fires for actual "Darrel" (a missspelling of Bock's first name existing in the content description of three books in my library), for the correct "Darrell", and it would also fire for "Darrelion", "Darrellia" etc. That's why you see the correctly spelled resources in the results of your second filter.
3. Since there is no existing word beginning with "Darell" anywhere in the metadata, no results for your first filter.

Hope this explains it a bit.