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Re:HN Search Updated by thousande on Saturday January 25, 2014 @09:35AM (#7120872)
nice ui and fast, but the search results could improve

Test: Search for a "story" about "Firefox" "today"

Result:

http://i.imgur.com/xQwc7WP.png

Re:HN Search Updated by redox_ on Saturday January 25, 2014 @06:17PM (#7122975)
Yes, that's a consequence of our typo-tolerance handling. We're computing a damerau-levenshtein edit-distance and are currently allowing 2 typos if the word is at least composed by 7 chars. Regarding the corpus, we'll probably increase it to 8 or 9 (instead of 7 by default) to allow 2 typos and 4 (instead of 3 by default) to allow 1 typo.