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Results vary for search terms 'earth' and 'Earth'

I see that the search is case insensitive, but this is not true for 'Earth'.

Search for 'Earth' returns 2 places, whereas search for 'earth' returns no places.

Please fix.

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  • QUOTE (NISHIT S @ Apr 2 2010, 07:31 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    I see that the search is case insensitive, but this is not true for 'Earth'.

    Search for 'Earth' returns 2 places, whereas search for 'earth' returns no places.

    Please fix.


    Thanks for bringing this to our attention. GeoPlanet performs case-sensitive searches for places, since some place names may have different meanings when they are not capitalized. "Earth" more often refers to a place than "earth", which could mean the same as "dirt" or "ground". In this particular case, "earth" has a low enough probability (according to our algorithms) to be ignored by GeoPlanet. We'll see if we can improve this in a future release.

    Eddie Babcock
    Yahoo! Geo Technologies
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