What is fuzziness?
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In the main search bar, you can write a query with the search operator tilde (~) with a number, at the end of each word of your query. You can set fuzziness to 1 or 2. It corresponds to the maximum number of operations (insertions, deletions, substitutions and transpositions) on characters needed to make one term match the other.
kitten -> sitten (1 substitution (k turned into s) = fuzziness is 1)
kitten -> sittin (2 substitutions (k turned into s and e turned into i) = fuzziness is 2)
If you search for similar terms (to catch typos for example), use fuzziness. Use the at the end of the word to set the fuzziness to 1 or 2.
"The default edit distance is 2, but an edit distance of 1 should be sufficient to catch 80% of all human misspellings. It can be specified as: quikc~1" (source: ).
Example: quikc~ brwn~ foks~ (as the default edit distance is 2, this query will catch all quick, quack, quock, uqikc, etc. as well as brown, folks, etc.)
Example: Datashare~1 (this query will catch Datasahre, Dqtashare, etc.)
When you run a , you can set the fuzziness to 0, 1 or 2. It is the same as explained above, it will apply to each word in a query and corresponds to the maximum number of operations (insertions, deletions, substitutions and transpositions) on characters needed to make one term match the other.
kitten -> sitten (1 substitution (k turned into s) = fuzziness is 1)
kitten -> sittin (2 substitutions (k turned into s and e turned into i) = fuzziness is 2)
If you search for similar terms (to catch typos for example), use fuzziness. Use the at the end of the word to set the fuzziness to 1 or 2.
"The default edit distance is 2, but an edit distance of 1 should be sufficient to catch 80% of all human misspellings. It can be specified as: quikc~1" (source: ).
Example: quikc~ brwn~ foks~ (as the default edit distance is 2, this query will catch all quick, quack, quock, uqikc, etc. as well as brown, folks, etc.)
Example: Datashare~1 (this query will catch Datasahre, Dqtashare, etc.)