How are duplicates identified?

 

The fuzzy-matching engine uses the fields you have selected for comparison and compares data within them using a complex algorithm.  This fuzzy-logic data matching algorithm doesn’t rely on dictionary matching or phonics rules – so all misspellings, abbreviations and foreign-language names (which are outside of any dictionary or phonics rule set) are still examined with the same high degree of accuracy as any other data. 

The fuzzy-matching engine also checks values across fields, so when a first name is mistakenly placed in a surname field it will still be found and compared to every other first name in the dataset.

 

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