Fuzzy Search Explained

Fuzzy matching is a technique that matches strings based on similarity rather than an exact match. A fuzzy matching algorithm ignores spelling errors, typos, and stop words and assigns similarity scores to strings to identify the proximity between them.

Exact search finds only exact matches of the user input query, whereas fuzzy searches consider similarity scoring to identify words similar to the query string. For example, if your query text is "Naw Yark," exact search would return nothing, while fuzzy search would return "New York," "New Year," or similar words.

Some examples of a fuzzy search are words that are misspelled, typing errors, or words without spaces, like "Restrants in New Yark," "Besst books of 2023," or "Howto plana weekend trip."