Re:Google Recently Made A Silent Shift To A New Search Algor...
by nl on Thursday September 26, 2013 @10:39PM
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Interesting!
"heir" is a much closer match for "hair" in terms of Levenshtein distance[1] (which indicates a typing error) and soundex[2] (misheard). But clearly "to err is human" should be offered as a possibility too.
"heir" is a much closer match for "hair" in terms of Levenshtein distance[1] (which indicates a typing error) and soundex[2] (misheard). But clearly "to err is human" should be offered as a possibility too.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex