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by guruparan18 2440 days ago
Interestingly, `soundex` is bundled along with the standard functions in most commercial software. In one of my first search function I wrote, I used `soundex` to run against previous search words and suggest a known search word as 'did you mean?' to catch the spelling errors. This is around 2008-2010, and was an easy way out of what Google search was doing at that time. It was quite useful.