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5th May 2010 - Link Blog

A fast, fuzzy, full-text index using Redis. Interesting twist on building a reverse-index using Redis sets: this one indexes only the metaphones of the words, resulting in a phonetic fuzzy search.

Posted 5th May 2010 at 5:51 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 5th May 2010.

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