ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

fuzzy search

Fuzzy search is like a game of hide-and-seek. You give the computer something to find, but it doesn't have to be exact. It might find things that are similar to what you're looking for. Think about when you play hide-and-seek: you don't know exactly where your friends are hiding, but you can search around until you find them. Fuzzy search is like that, but with words. The computer looks at the letters in the word and finds words that are similar. For example, if you search for 'dog', it might find 'dawg' or 'dodge'.