The Completion Suggester is the default option for search-as-you-type suggestions. It was initially designed to provide a more fluent user experience.
Features Better search result rankingThe completion suggester features a totally new method for ranking search results. In general, you should see more relevant search results for your queries, with the effect being particularly pronounced for shorter queries. The new method also incorporates page views into the rankings, so that pages which are viewed more often are ranked slightly higher than pages which are viewed less frequently.
Tolerance for typos and stop wordsThe completion suggester is tolerant to small typos. This includes the following types of typos:
The completion suggester is also tolerant to stop words. If the user forgot to type a leading article like The the suggestions will get displayed. Searching for lord rings will properly suggest all pages related to The Lord of the Rings.
Fewer typos suggestedRedirects with typos are sometimes added to popular pages and the default suggestion algorithm will simply display the redirect as is. The Completion Suggester will attempt to display the proper title if the redirect is close enough. Searching for Airton Senna will properly suggest Ayrton Senna. This is useful to avoid displaying obviously wrong redirects like Unietd States.
Ranking criteriaThe system is using a combination of multiple factors to rank the suggestions:
if you are curious to know how the score is computed for a particular page please see the cirruscompsuggestbuilddoc action API property, for example see an explanation of how the w:Algorithm page is constructed and scored by the completion suggester: cirruscompsuggestbuilddoc on en:Algorithm (note the score_explanation section).
PreferencesThe completion suggester feature has a preference tab in Special:Preferences to configure the search-as-you-type suggestions.
Completion suggesterThe legacy search-as-you-type suggestion algorithm.
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