Glossary · Indexing and discovery
shingle
A run of consecutive words, typically eight, taken as one unit when comparing texts.
What shingle means
A run of consecutive words, typically eight, taken as one unit when comparing texts. Two pages' shingle sets overlap in proportion to how much text they share in the same order; single-word overlap would count every page in the same language as similar.
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Whether a page can be found and kept, separately from whether it can be fetched.
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Questions about shingle
What is shingle?
A run of consecutive words, typically eight, taken as one unit when comparing texts.
Which area of the glossary does shingle belong to?
Indexing and discovery: Whether a page can be found and kept, separately from whether it can be fetched.
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