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MindSwipe t1_iuh7by2 wrote

So, modern searches like this are typo-tolerant, and "fast" and "last" are separate by 1 letter which might as well be a typo for all the program knows.

More advanced algorithms can take the users locale and keyboard layout into account to see if the misstyped letter is physically close to another, but that's added engineering work for a incredibly marginal improvement so most people don't bother.

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