Is there a recommended configuration for an analyzer that would support a Google-style predictive front-end search engine?

I would like to have smart-stemming a-la snowball but also return predictive hits (i.e. "mad" would return "madonna" in a music search).

Thanks.

I guess you problem could also be solved from a query point of view. Why not just use a PrefixQuery which will automatically be generated when you generate a query of the form "mad*"

If you want to tackle your problem from the analyzer level you probably would have to index each of your tokens including all its substrings (similar to what the synonym analyzer does). This approach has, however, side effects you have to be aware of. See also http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/l ... w_threaded

I am also not quite sure what you mean with "Google-style predictive search". Do you mean fuzzy search?

--Hardy