What is “fuzzy logic” and how does it affect my search results?
Fuzzy logic (or fuzzy searching) is a technology that allows the search process to find “near misses” to the term being searched. This is a particularly valuable feature within a database such as 19th Century British Library Newspapers in that it allows the user to locate a word or words within documents despite imperfect matches in spelling between the searched term and document content. This is a common occurrence in nineteenth-century documents due to spelling variants or OCR errors resulting from poor quality of original typeset text sources.
