shingle
A run of consecutive words, typically eight, taken as one unit when comparing texts.
What shingle means
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.
Related terms in Indexing and discovery
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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