143: The Evolution of Search with Marcus Eagan
Programming Throwdown
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Lucy - Is Lucy a Good Search Engine?
If you don't have control over some of that but you're still collecting up and looking that's where you would start to use something like do seen. Lucy implements the domeral levis sign edit distance algorithm for determining in a performant manner if token is an edit distance of great of less than or equal to two away from what exists in your corpus, it can quickly correct that query by changing one of those P's to an O. It also does more freeform text that you can input and sort of going over across the different fields of your dataYeah that's right I think the fuzzy matching is an important point though because it goes back to like letting more people like a broader user
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