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DostKaplan DostKaplan October 17, 2017 October 17, 2017 at 8:03:20 AM UTC link Permalink

I searched for "her *ünce" (double quotes included) from Turkish to English. I got results like:

Her şey gönlünce olsun!
Umarım her şey düzgünce gider.

Why am I getting results with an intervening word (şey) in the search string?

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deniko deniko October 17, 2017 October 17, 2017 at 11:52:42 AM UTC link Permalink

I believe the search engine interprets that as:

Find anything that contains "her", then any characters (that was represented by *) and then contains "ünce".

All the sentences you listed follow this pattern.

If you wanted to search for "her" which is followed by any word ending with "ünce" but nothing in between, I'm not sure whether you can do that.

However, there are only three sentences that follow your pattern "her *ünce" , this means there are no sentences that don't have şey in between "her" and a word ending in ünce

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DostKaplan DostKaplan October 17, 2017 October 17, 2017 at 6:28:30 PM UTC link Permalink

I am pretty sure it was working correctly before. To do what you described I would have to search for "her * *ünce". Even so the first asterisk is a placeholder for a single word, not multiple words. Based on the results (only 3) I got, "her *ünce" should have returned zero results (which is fine and acceptable because there are no Turkish sentences matching my pattern). So I think a bug got introduced recently.