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SEO Glossary of Terms
A Glossary of Terms relating to search engine optimisation (seo)
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Fuzzy matching

Fuzzy matching is the opposite of exact matching, instead of the search only returning the exact term it will return documents that contain variations on the query and other documents that are thought to be relevant to the query. This is done as it is assumed that results which are similar to the query will also be relevant to the search.