Fuzzy String Matching

[icaria36]

I'm sorry for the blunt subject, I almost never do this, but in this case it seems measurably justified. :) Given that finding artists, albums, and songs is the main purpose of Bandwagon, I think this problem is important.

In my experience, the search of artists / albums will find exact single words but not fuzzy searches and I haven't tested enough the performance with multiple words. I end up scrolling the list of artists, which works now that we're a small croward but of course this isn't sustainable. :)

Example:

Search "Meljoan". Nothing: https://bandwagon.fm/albums?q=Meljoan

Search "Meljoann". There it is: https://bandwagon.fm/albums?q=Meljoann

[benpate]

Thank you. I'm knee deep in the search engine now, so this is very timely. I'm using the full text indexing in MongoDB, and I'm sure there's a way I can turn on "fuzzy" string matching.

[benpate]

By the way, here's a "work in progress" screenshot. There are several extra facets that we're adding, along with dedicated searches for songs (including description/lyrics) and events+location.