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OS: Linux , Windows , Chrome , Mac
Pri: 3
Type: Feature

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issue 719764

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issue 821937



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Make search more flexible (partial matches, synonyms, etc)

Project Member Reported by melodychu@chromium.org, Feb 15 2017

Issue description

Chrome Version: M56+
OS: All

What steps will reproduce the problem?
(1) go to chrome://settings
(2) search for "clear settings" "clear history" "erase history" "history" "clear data" ect (this is just one of many examples)
(3) There's no result

What is the expected result?
1. Partial matches (like "clear data") should find relevant results like "clear browsing data"
2. Ideally, keyword mapping can help the user find the right settings even if it's not an exact match. If a user is searching for "erase history" it's pretty clear they're looking for "clear browsing data"

What happens instead?
The user thinks there's no match.

 
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Comment 2 by hwi@chromium.org, Feb 15 2017

Cc: dbeam@chromium.org bettes@chromium.org
Also, there are some menu items changing that the search bar will not find after MD, such as:

- "Reset settings" becomes "Reset" (if a user types "reset settings" after MD, they get no results)
- "Show advanced settings" becomes "Advanced"
- "Hostname pattern" becomes "Enter the web address"

Comment 4 by dbeam@chromium.org, Mar 22 2017

there's a long-standing bug request about searching for synonyms, but there's no currently no infrastructure for synonyms or "did you mean?" for misspellings.

every time a string changes, this comes up.  i don't think it's new or specific to md-settings, it's just there are more than the average number of changes in md-settings.

Comment 5 by dbeam@chromium.org, Apr 17 2017

Cc: rookrishna@chromium.org dpa...@chromium.org abod...@chromium.org dhadd...@chromium.org tbuck...@chromium.org
 Issue 710706  has been merged into this issue.
Labels: -Pri-2 Proj-MaterialDesign-WebUI Hotlist-MD-Settings-SearchBox Pri-3

Comment 7 by dpa...@chromium.org, Apr 24 2017

Status: Available (was: Untriaged)
Summary: Make search more flexible (partial matches, synonyms, etc) (was: Chrome://settings search box doesn't allow for partial keyword searches or other relevant results)

Comment 9 by dpa...@chromium.org, Mar 14 2018

Blocking: 821937
dpapad@ - is there any chance this is going to get picked up? I think it would be super helpful, especially for sections like networking.

This is unlikely to be picked up before M70 due to other ongoing efforts.

Having said that, there is quite a bit of research and fleshing out needed, on how this feature would work, and be implemented, that someone (PM side?) could start on exploring, if they have cycles.
Cc: steve...@chromium.org afakhry@chromium.org ovanieva@chromium.org
 Issue 824012  has been merged into this issue.
Labels: -OS-All OS-Chrome OS-Linux OS-Mac OS-Windows
Blockedon: 719764
Blocking: -821937
Blocking: 821937
 Issue 821937  has been merged into this issue.
Cc: susanjun...@techmahindra.com
 Issue 806188  has been merged into this issue.
 Issue 918080  has been merged into this issue.

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