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Google custom search engine and partial matching

I plugged in the Google Custom Search Engine to my MediaWiki site. It seems to work fine. However, how do I also make it search for results using partial matching? For example: when I searched for 'loft', it returned only the pages containing the whole word 'loft', but I was also looking for the pages containing 'loft' as a substring of some words, like 'createloft', 'deleteloft', 'loftstudy', etc.

Solution

  • Google doesn't provide such advanced search features. If you need things like per-namespace search, substring matching, regex search etc. use CirrusSearch, which is based on ElasticSearch.