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Fuzzy Search and Levenshtein Distance

Hoen Nguyen explains a couple of terms:

In the world of search engines and data retrieval, achieving high accuracy and relevance in the results is a constant challenge. One of the techniques used to improve search results is Fuzzy Search.

This blog post will delve into the concept of fuzzy search, its implementation using the Levenshtein Distance, and how to test its effectiveness.

Levenshtein distance is also one of the techniques spell checkers use, comparing word not in its dictionary to other words within a certain distance.