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sbrownnw
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago
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SearchV2Async returning inconsistent results

given the following code: namespace Dropbox { internal class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { DropboxClientConfig config = new DropboxClientConfig { ...
  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    3 years ago

    The Dropbox search backend may apply some tokenization and rewriting to queries, e.g., to try to handle typos, exclude potentially extraneous results, include potentially relevant results, etc. That being the case, you won't always see only exact matches. For instance, for the cases you have shown here, it may remove stop words like "this", and include results for potentially correcting typos or related tokens, such as "text" for "txt".

     

    I'll pass this along as requests to specifically document these behaviors for the API endpoint, as well as the ability to do strict matching searches, but I can't promise if/when these might be done.

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