block queries with lots of one and two letter terms

[nominatim.git] / nominatim / api / search / icu_tokenizer.py

diff --git a/nominatim/api/search/icu_tokenizer.py b/nominatim/api/search/icu_tokenizer.py
index f259995db112bbbe537aaa3855f2d4d78e36f5e2..ad08294e00f8409c04043d9187a96198aebc8e16 100644 (file)
--- a/nominatim/api/search/icu_tokenizer.py
+++ b/nominatim/api/search/icu_tokenizer.py
@@ -192,7 +192,12 @@ class ICUQueryAnalyzer(AbstractQueryAnalyzer):
             standardized form search will work with. All information removed
             at this stage is inevitably lost.
         """
             standardized form search will work with. All information removed
             at this stage is inevitably lost.
         """

-        return cast(str, self.normalizer.transliterate(text))
+        norm = cast(str, self.normalizer.transliterate(text))
+        numspaces = norm.count(' ')
+        if numspaces > 4 and len(norm) <= (numspaces + 1) * 3:
+            return ''
+
+        return norm

 
 
     def split_query(self, query: qmod.QueryStruct) -> Tuple[QueryParts, WordDict]:
 
 
     def split_query(self, query: qmod.QueryStruct) -> Tuple[QueryParts, WordDict]: