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[3.1.x] Corrected note about long names in search docs.
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adursun authored and felixxm committed Aug 31, 2020
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Now we have a different problem - the longer name of "Helena Bonham Carter"
doesn't show up as it is much longer. Trigram searches consider all
combinations of three letters, and compares how many appear in both search and
source strings. For the longer name, there are more combinations which appear
in the source string so it is no longer considered a close match.
source strings. For the longer name, there are more combinations that don't
appear in the source string, so it is no longer considered a close match.

The correct choice of comparison functions here depends on your particular data
set, for example the language(s) used and the type of text being searched. All
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