Docs search failed on the exact title of the article
A stemmer ate the product name. I would have blamed the user. The query was perfect. The index was precious. Fixed, with a test that uses our own name.
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I have been adjacent to this. The sentence I would not skip is "I would have blamed the user". Finding who it is for mattered more than adding another feature.
I am not convinced "A stemmer ate the product name" is the constraint yet. The people who saw it may have been the wrong room.
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