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Samuel Paccoud - DINUM authored
When the query looks like an email (includes @) we search by Levenstein distance because we are just trying to prevent typing errors, not searching anymore. It is important to still propose results with a short Levenstein distance because it is frequent to forget a double letter in someone's name for example "Pacoud" or even "pacou" instead of "Paccoud" and we want to prevent duplicates or failing on invitation. We consider the query string to be an email as soon as it contains a "@" character. Trying harder to identify a string that is really an email would lead to weird behaviors like toto@example.gouv looking like and email but if we continue typing toto@example.gouv.f not looking like an email... before toto@example.gouv.fr finally looking like an email. The result would be jumping from one type of search to the other. As soon as there is a "@" in the query, we can be sure that the user is not looking for a name anymore and we can switch to matching by Levenstein distance.
Samuel Paccoud - DINUM authoredWhen the query looks like an email (includes @) we search by Levenstein distance because we are just trying to prevent typing errors, not searching anymore. It is important to still propose results with a short Levenstein distance because it is frequent to forget a double letter in someone's name for example "Pacoud" or even "pacou" instead of "Paccoud" and we want to prevent duplicates or failing on invitation. We consider the query string to be an email as soon as it contains a "@" character. Trying harder to identify a string that is really an email would lead to weird behaviors like toto@example.gouv looking like and email but if we continue typing toto@example.gouv.f not looking like an email... before toto@example.gouv.fr finally looking like an email. The result would be jumping from one type of search to the other. As soon as there is a "@" in the query, we can be sure that the user is not looking for a name anymore and we can switch to matching by Levenstein distance.
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