Did you mean vague bedsheet?

Mate de Vita
Kelli

2008 Oct 4 • 2413
159 ₧

I've been wondering this for a while, how is the "Did you mean xxx" generated in the Search function on this foram? Because it doesn't seem random, since it's the same if you search for the same phrase twice.
...and that's the bottom line because Mate de Vita said so.

Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past.

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Cap'n Moth of the Firehouse


2007 Oct 19 • 5325
57,583 ₧

Hash functions! Everyone stares when you walk in the room, they stare when you go....

Outcast
How do I edit this?

2009 Dec 13 • 300

I'm trying to remember what i was typing to appear "Did you mean Search?".

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Cap'n Moth of the Firehouse


2007 Oct 19 • 5325
57,583 ₧

Well, we know SuperJer already has a large list of words that he uses in the Headline Generator (which is fantastic by the way), so I assume he's tweaked it such that "ordinary" phrases don't really turn up. I've done a bit of work on grammars, it should be possible, I think. If you decompose the thing you are searching for into some number, jam that into your sentence-generator, you get consistent results but few (no?) collisions. Everyone stares when you walk in the room, they stare when you go....