search command not accurate in its search

[javienneyeo]

searched apes in my list but results gave apples and green apples

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Team's Response

Search is not meant to be super strict. We don't want to unduly punish users for typos. The feature is meant to return the closest result it can find (since "apples" starts with "ap"). The alternative is to not return anything but we found less value in just showing nothing.

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