13. The method of claim 12 wherein the closeness value assigned to each record is determined by evaluative criteria, said criteria including exact word matching and ordered word prefix matching.
13. The method of claim 12 wherein the closeness value assigned to each record is determined by evaluative criteria, said criteria including exact word matching and ordered word prefix matching. 14. The method of claim 13 further comprising comparing the number of matched words and matched word prefixes in each of the retrieved records with said words and word prefixes in the input string of target words.