OSB 2015 - What's in a name? Phonetic Algorithms for Search and Similarity
Channel: StumptownSyndicate
Date: 2015-09-08

Mercedes Coyle
Search can be as simple as returning a word or part of word based on character similarity. LIKE and wildcard matches can be sufficient, but can only account for character or string matching, and fail on misspelled words or names. Phonetic algorithms can help us find matches for misspellings and typo'd user data.