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> And (applying a pinch of poetic freedom here) yielded results that surpass those of the academics and giants of the field in versatility and power.

I (as well as a dozen other students) were taught an IR course where we had to implement a search engine from scratch. We used tries both to provide spelling suggestions and to build inverted indices for text. That was 7 years ago.

Not to discredit Steve, he's done great work and his article is a great resource, but it's not the groundbreaking discovery you make it to be.

PS. Tries are awesome. <3




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