From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2005-09-23T10:18:14+09:00
Subject: Re: A question about Intelligent Systems and using Ruby

From: "Phil Tomson" <ptkwt@aracnet.com>
> In article <d0fd5d6105092210597d704f9e@mail.gmail.com>,
> Josh Charles  <josh.charles@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >It is similar to googles "did you mean aardvark?" when you search for
> >"ardvark."  is that considered AI?
> 
> Good question. It may not be.  Could be simply that they check each of the 
> words against a dictionary and it it's not there they check for similar words 
> (using Levenstein distance (sp?), for example).

I'd guess something like that, with more popular search
terms weighted most heavily?


Regards,

Bill