Let’s say you’re at work, and you need to find something in a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) application. You only partial information, say the customer’s last name or perhaps part of the street address. You enter that information in, but can’t seem to find the customer. Your only option appears to be to thumb through thousands of entries.
The technical problem behind this is the people who designed the software didn’t account for partial search terms. It happens in more applications than you might think.
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