In the beginning, Google matched the words in a searcher’s query to the words on a web page and ranks those pages (roughly) based on how many external links each had. Over the years, Google’s ...

Google has been using a technique called neural matching to better understand synonyms, which is said to impact 30% of queries. According to Google’s Danny Sullivan, the search engine has been using ...

Recently we have been hearing more about Google’s neural matching but the truth is, we don’t know much from Google on what neural matching is and how Google uses it. Google answered several questions ...

On Friday the 19th of February 2021, M.Sc. Pengfei Xu will defend his doctoral thesis on Efficient Approximate String Matching with Synonyms and Taxonomies. The thesis is related to research done in ...