Hi Jackie,
Thanks for your questions!
Partially matched with exact proximity (term appearing next to each other) is not a match?
As I understand it, partially matched texts of any kind will not constitute a match for this search type.
Incidentally, the is initial article that would be usually ignored when conducting a right-anchored browse based search. Were there discussions about searches with/without initial article, ie, the, a, an, les, l’, la, las, etc. will yield to same results?
Currently the articles are not ignored when searching for “begins with” or “exactly matches” via advanced search. I feel like I have heard this topic or similar topics being discussed e.g. in connection with Titles of original works starting with an article are left-stripped (#4549), but I am not sure to which extent this particular topic for this particular context has been discussed.
@tizianap might know if it has been discussed in the community?
And @a.gazzarini might know whether there are assumptions made out-of-the-box with the search technology we are using?
@jshieh, how would you expect the search to handle this? Does it currently behave differently than what you were expecting?