[ic] Fuzzy Search Logic

Kevin Walsh interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Tue Oct 15 00:05:02 2002


Barry Treahy, Jr. [Treahy@MMaz.com] wrote:
> 
> Has anyone done any work or know of any open-source 'bolt-ons' that 
> would help IC perform the fuzzy logic search suggestions common to many 
> search engines?
> 
I don't know too much about search engine technology, but I imagine
that some of them use soundex and/or synonym table lookups when
ordinary searches fail to find a certain number of results.

I'll resist the temptation to post a fuzzy logic joke this time. :-)

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