Searching for stops with very simple names does not work properly about pokemonquestbot HOT 3 OPEN

This is due to the fact that we use %searchterm% instead of searchterm%.
But yes, that is an issue which we should get solved either by pagination or optimizing the search or both :)

EDIT:
Can you give an example search term and result list?

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Without knowing specifics about the search used, just by similarity with SQL i would assume that searchterm% roughly equates to regex searchterm.* and only matches beginning of word with wildcard on the end, which would solve this problem somewhat but would also lead to lots of actual positive matches being discarded (with the term in the middle or end of the word). Not sure if this solution doesn't actually make things worse overall.

For a proper solution there is probably no way around either pagination (cumbersome but would make all options selectable) or a better search algorithm with an adjusted score/metric for match quality.

I will try to provide an example when i get home.

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Example result for searchterm "Statue":

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