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superste



Joined: 31/05/2007 16:34:29
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is there any special algorithm?

e.g. searching for 'york' i expect york,united kingdom

how is it done to put york,uk at first position in the result and not e.g. york,pennsylvania or york,south carolina??
marc



Joined: 08/12/2005 07:39:47
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There are a lot of factors used for the sorting. Among them feature code and population.

Marc

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