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Searching Plural & Singular

Mariholly — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 17:41:43 GMT

I've noticed that when searching for terms like "snowflakes," results for products with just one "snowflake" are not included. The same happens in reverse. Is this normal? I think it would be helpful if the search engine were more flexible in searching variations of the same word, like singular and plural. This would allow for a wider variety of products to be found and would make searching easier for all users.

Re: Searching Plural & Singular

Barbara — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 20:22:29 GMT

Granted, this is some years ago, but it was questioned then, and Zazzle said there was no need to add the plural version of a tag. For instance, "flower" would bring up "flowers." I guess we'd better include both versions from now on.

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Re: Searching Plural & Singular

ColsCreations — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 12:22:56 GMT

I'm not seeing that happen? I tried a few different searches.
[wind chime] vs [wind chimes] with and without a keyword because it's a product type Zazzle does not include the s on.
[sunflower pillow] vs [sunflowers pillow]
[snowflake pillow] vs [snowflakes pillow]
In each case, I got the exact same number of results and comparing the results on pages 1 and 15 they were the same.

Looking at individual results, products titled and tagged only as [singular] were in the results for [plurals] and vice versa.

Re: Searching Plural & Singular

Barbara — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 17:17:47 GMT

Thank you for checking it out. I was wondering why Zazzle would change the policy. It seems they didn't.

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