TinkerThe search waits on the desk.
Chapter 5 of 7
“Refund” and “refunds”
Someone searches “Refunds” with a capital R and finds a single page, though the refund policy says “refund” on page after page.
This chapter: How can a search match a word’s other forms?
About this chapter
You will learn
- Lower case folds capitals
- A stemmer folds endings
- Stop words are too common to help
Words you’ll meet
- Lower case
- Folding every capital, so “Refunds” and “refunds” are one word.
- Stemmer
- A rule that cuts a word’s endings, so “refunds” and “refunded” share the drawer “refund”.
- Stop word
- A word on nearly every page, like “the” or “for”, left out of the index.
Step 1 of 6
So far the index has filed words exactly as written, so “Refunds” and “refunds” sit in different drawers.
Search for “Refunds”.