At 4:28 PM +0200 9/5/2000, Torsten Neuer wrote:
>
>What search algorithm are you using?  If the word does not exist in the
>documents, "exact" matching should not return hits - metaphone, soundex,
>etc may do so.

And that is a reason for everyone to be conservative and thoughtful 
in your application of fuzzy matching.  If search admins are 
confused, imagine how lost the end-user searchers are!

Avi
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