This article talks about using levenstein distance to compare the similarity of two words/sentences another great algorithm for fuzzy string matching is http://

This article talks about using levenstein distance to compare the similarity of two words/sentences another great algorithm for fuzzy string matching is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphone it basically compacts a word into its phonetic components and allows you to implement a google type did you mean.