Various embodiments of a method and system for determin ing sets of variant items are
described. Various embodiments may include a system configured to generate multiple item
pairs each corresponding to a particular item and another item determined to be similar to
the particular item. For the par ticular item and the other item, each item pair may include a
respective sequence of text strings (eg, a title). For each item pair, the system may perform a
corresponding text alignment and determine one or more misalignments of the item pair …

BACKGROUND The Internet, sometimes called simply “the Net,” is a worldwide system of
computer networks in which a client at any one computer may, with permission, obtain
information from any other computer. The most widely used part of the Internet is the World
WideWeb, often abbreviated “WWW.” which is commonly referred to as “the web. The web
may be defined as all the resources (eg, web pages and web sites) and users on the Internet
that use the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or variations thereofto access the resources.