Dear SWISH-E list,

>>In german - and I guess in many other languages too - you have a lot
>>of compound words (is that the right term?), something like
>>"Stackenblokkenquiz", and people want to find that when only looking
>>for 'quiz'.
>>
>>Wouldn't it be possible to to "just" (heh!) index reversed words and
>>then also reverse the left-masked words in the query? Somthing like
>>this, you get the idea....

You really need a compound word parser and/or a regex index lookup.  
Reversed words in the index won't help if you want to look for "blokken" 
or "*blokken*".

Alex.

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