# Title search \<exactly matches\>

**URL:** <https://forum.svde.org/t/title-search-exactly-matches/40>\
**Category:** Bugs\
**Created:** [April 11, 2022, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.svde.org/t/title-search-exactly-matches/40 "2022-04-11T13:45:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 22, 2022, 1:14pm UTC](https://forum.svde.org/t/title-search-exactly-matches/40/5 "2022-04-22T13:14:02Z")

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Hi Jackie,

Thanks for your questions!

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> 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.

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> 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)](https://forum.svde.org/t/titles-of-original-works-starting-with-an-article-are-left-stripped-4549/17), 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?

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