Resource search method and device

Embodiments of the invention provide a resource search method and device. The method comprises the following steps of: obtaining a search character string input by a user in terminal equipment; respectively obtaining public character sequences of the search character string and each candidate character string in a candidate character string set, wherein the public character sequences represent at least one same character appearing in the search character string and the candidate character strings in sequence; respectively determining a matching degree between the search character string and each candidate character string according to each public character sequence; and determining a first target character string from the candidate character string set according to the matching degree between the search character string and each candidate character string, and sending a first resource corresponding to the first target character string to the terminal equipment. The resource search method and device are used f