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				<title>q / name / name_startsWith -- what about name_contains?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ I'm new to using this service, and wow is it awesome!  I have been unable to figure a couple of things out though...

First of all, the basic search API appears to be an exact name or token match only... for example:  search?q=chica does not return Chicago, but it does return "Loma Chica Colonia" and one other result.

Same thing if I use name= ...

It appears that name_startsWith works, even though it's undocumented in the regular search. (I saw it in the geocode specific search, and tried it)...  This is great!

However, I really wish I could also search name_contains -- so that a search for "chica" would return "Chicago" and other cities, in addition to the 2 that the current query returns.

Does something like this exist?]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:09:49]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ honestbleeps]]></author>
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				<title>Re:q / name / name_startsWith -- what about name_contains?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ I remember we had once discussed a 'name_contains' service, but it has not been implemented.

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:05:51]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ marc]]></author>
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				<title>Re:q / name / name_startsWith -- what about name_contains?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Well, consider this my vote for name_contains. :-)]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:41:44]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ honestbleeps]]></author>
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