symbols and abbreviations issue

[chorton]

So, we have the search on a site that has phrases like "R & D".

But, when user search for R & D or "R & D", the & is stripped out and the engine searches for R and D separately.

How can I bypass this to allow & as a literal character? For that matter, any other type of abbreviation or symbol should be allowed (yes?)?

thanks!

[David]

In the Zoom configuration window on the "indexing options" tab, you can check the "Ampersand" box.

This will force all words separated by an ampersand (&) to become a single word.

So R&D will be treated as a single word. As would Cats&Dogs.

But the use of the space character is always treated as a word separator (for obvious reasons). But even if you are writing R & D with spaces, searches should be successful, as the search for the word R and the word D should find pages (assuming you have allowed short words of 1 character in Zoom).

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David