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A computer program that looks for text that matches a given text.

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  • Google uses text-matching to find web pages containing a particular text
  • So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search.
  • However "fuzzy" the Scribd text-matching is, it's likely that determined pirates will figure out how to exceed its threshold and get around it.
  • With DADS, we no longer rely on text-matching simple keywords, but rather we parse users' queries and then we form database queries which return answers from the...
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