The challenges of indexing business names

Posted by Philippe Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:50:00 GMT

Last night I added a little something to the indexing/searching so it deals better with business names that have only 1 letter, a space, 1 letter, a space, etc.

For example in Québec, we have the CLSC’s, they’re all listed as “C L S C CityNameHere”.

We’re now indexing “more than one time [1 letter + 1 space]” as 1 word, making it CLSC instead.

This will help with all the businesses with acronyms, like “C. A. M. U.” (now indexed as CAMU) or “J G Construction” (you can search for JG, or J G).