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Fuzzy Matching Search is one of the built-in search engines and is best suited to small projects. It provides a basic, JavaScript-based search that returns close matches as results. You can set up Fuzzy Matching Search in an HTML5 Help Center Layout.

Note

If you are not sure if Fuzzy Matching Search is suitable for your Help Center, see Search Engine Comparison.

To set up Fuzzy Matching Search:

  1. Select Layout in the top menu.

    Paligo editor. The Layout option in the header menu is highlighted.

    Paligo displays a list of Layouts. The list is empty if there are no custom Layouts in your Paligo instance.

  2. Select the HTML5 Help Center Layout that you are going to use for publishing your Help Center.

    Alternatively, create a new HTML5 Help Center.

  3. Select Search engine.

  4. Make sure the following settings are in place:

    • Use Algolia Search

      Set to Default or Disable.

    • Use Algolia DocSearch option

      Set to Default or Disable.

    • Use Coveo search engine

      Set to Default or Disable.

    • Use Elastic Site Search.

      Clear the field.

    • Use Fuzzy Search

      Set to Enable.

  5. Set the Fuzzy Search Threshold.

    This is an amount that defines how strict the matching is. You can enter any value between 0.1 and 1.0, where:

    • 0.1 is an exact match (the same as Linguistic Search)

    • 0.9 is the least strict match, which is the most forgiving of typing errors.

    The default setting is 0.3.

  6. Select Save.

When you publish your content with this Layout, Paligo will set the HTML5 Help Center to use the Fuzzy Matching Search.

The Fuzzy Matching Search works like this:

  1. You enter a search term, for example, "liquid".

    You intend to search for "liquid" but you mistype the search term and instead enter "liqid"

  2. The search engine searches the Help Center for topics that contain words that are similar to "liqid".

  3. The search engine presents the results. "liqid" (hopefully none, unless you have made the spelling mistake in your content). and words with similar characters to "liquid" in the heading or body text. The topics with the highest number of "liquid" usually appear as the top results.

    If you also made the spelling mistake in your content, the search engine will find the instances of "liqid". It will also find topics that contain the correct spelling "liquid" and also any similar spelling mistakes, for example, "liqwid" or "licquid".

Note

Fuzzy Matching search provides results based on a close match to the search term.

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