Same behaviour at no.wikipedia. Sometimes it even seems like the
identical article entry is removed from the search result.

A quick-fix could be to use word frequency or tf-idf from the
language, or perhaps from the page your at when you do the search.

John

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the search box, I get suggestions on the fly as I type, and I'm
> often impressed by the good suggestions. However, right now at Wiktionary
> I get suggestions that aren't the best ones for the given prefix.
>
> For example, at en.wiktionary.org if I type "lagru" it doesn't
> suggest"lagrum", but instead a bunch of inflected and derived
> forms:
> lagrumshänvisning
> lagrums
> lagrumshänvisnings
> lagrummets
> lagrummen
> lagrummet
> lagrumshänvisningars
> lagrumshänvisningar
> lagrumshänvisningarnas
> lagrumshänvisningarna
>
> Since these are Swedish entries in the English Wiktionary,
> none of these pages get much traffic. Are the completion
> suggestions based on traffic stats? In this case, link
> count might be a better predictor for best suggestion,
> since all derived forms link back to the basic form.
>
> Not much traffic: 5 page views in 30 days,
> http://stats.grok.se/en.d/latest/lagrum
>
>
> --
>   Lars Aronsson ([email protected])
>   Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
>
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