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Published inJun 2017
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Abhishek Andhavarapu
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Abhishek Andhavarapu

Abhishek Andhavarapu is a software engineer at eBay who enjoys working on highly scalable distributed systems. He has a master's degree in Distributed Computing and has worked on multiple enterprise Elasticsearch applications, which are currently serving hundreds of millions of requests per day. He began his journey with Elasticsearch in 2012 to build an analytics engine to power dashboards and quickly realized that Elasticsearch is like nothing out there for search and analytics. He has been a strong advocate since then and wrote this book to share the practical knowledge he gained along the way.
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Correcting typos and spelling mistakes

In the previous chapter, we discussed different ways to query documents based on the user search input. But the search input might contain typos and spelling mistakes. Automatically correcting the user's spelling mistakes and typos improves the overall search experience. The term or match query that we discussed in the previous chapter only looks for the exact term in the inverted index. In this section, we will discuss different types of queries Elasticsearch provides to correct the typos.

Fuzzy query

The fuzzy query is provided to look for terms that are close to the original term. It looks for terms in the inverted index, which are like the query term based on the edit distance...

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Abhishek Andhavarapu

Abhishek Andhavarapu is a software engineer at eBay who enjoys working on highly scalable distributed systems. He has a master's degree in Distributed Computing and has worked on multiple enterprise Elasticsearch applications, which are currently serving hundreds of millions of requests per day. He began his journey with Elasticsearch in 2012 to build an analytics engine to power dashboards and quickly realized that Elasticsearch is like nothing out there for search and analytics. He has been a strong advocate since then and wrote this book to share the practical knowledge he gained along the way.
Read more about Abhishek Andhavarapu