Search Engine Glossary
Written by admin on Monday, October 15th, 2007 in Glossary.
Search Engine Glossary
Boolean search: A search allowing the inclusion or exclusion of documents containing certain words through the use of operators such as AND, NOT and OR.
Concept search: A search for documents related conceptually to a word, rather than specifically containing the word itself.
Full-text index: An index containing every word of every document cataloged, including stop words (defined below).
Fuzzy search: A search that will find matches even when words are only partially spelled or misspelled.
