For some unfamiliar value of "exact", again

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Juli said:

Unlike my previous such encounter (https://getsatisfaction.com/familysea...), this time I cannot see anything in the places database that would account for listing the city of Bazin (Pezinok) when I'm looking specifically for the city of Pozsony (Bratislava).

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Brian Rhees said: It looks like the Birthplace filter of "Bratislava, Slovakia" returns results within the region of Bratislava.

The birthplace for that top result has "Pezinok, Pezinok, Slovakia" which standardizes to "Pezinok, Pezinok, Bratislava, Slovakia"
https://www.familysearch.org/research...

Changing your search to an exact place of "Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia" filters out those results that were found within that district.
https://www.familysearch.org/search/r...

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David Newton said: Chalk up another better set of search results for untruncated place names!

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Juli said: Brian, so how is it even remotely possible that "Bratislava, Slovakia" exactly matches "Pezinok, Pezinok, Slovakia"? The only part they have in common is "Slovakia". Regardless of the underlying reasons, the net effect or impression is that the search is completely ignoring my inputs.

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David Newton said: Look at what he says the input standardises to: there's your answer. Region of Bratislava not city of Bratislava. City of Bratislava sits below the region, hence the results you are seeing.

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Juli said: If the placename it was bringing up as a supposedly exact match were "Pezinok, Bratislava, Slovakia", then it would basically make sense. But that's not what the placename is. As I said, regardless of the underlying reasons, the net impression is that FamilySearch is interpreting "exact" in some other language where it doesn't mean what we think it means.