"Did you mean" should search related for words
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	• bzimport
	Aug 13 2014, 9:20 PM

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Author: regarrison

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I think a search result that didn't find anything should also search for all related words in the query. I'm not sure I can explain this enhancement request any better without providing an example:

If I search for "Nelson's disease" I get no results, but the possible results that do show up only appear for "Nelson". I would like it if the search would include words related "disease" since that word can be easily switched for "syndrome".

If I had started my search for "Nelson's syndrome", it would have brought up the correct page.

I don't know how to modify or update the mechanism that is in place that redirects pages, but that might work as well.

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Severity: enhancement

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Reference: bz69493

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 3:45 AM

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• bzimport created this task.Aug 13 2014, 9:20 PM

Moving to CirrusSearch and setting to enhancement. Its certainly worth investigating. Most righteous would be to use the synonyms on https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disease (modulo language).

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