• GamingChairModel@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Why do people Google questions anyway?

    Because it gives better responses.

    Google and all the other major search engines have built in functionality to perform natural language processing on the user’s query and the text in its index to perform a search more precisely aligned with the user’s desired results, or to recommend related searches.

    If the functionality is there, why wouldn’t we use it?

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        5 hours ago

        Longer queries give better opportunities for error correction, like searching for synonyms and misspellings, or applying the right context clues.

        In this specific example, “is Angelina Jolie in Heat” gives better results than “Angelina Jolie heat,” because the words that make it a complete sentence question are also the words that give confirmation that the searcher is talking about the movie.

        Especially with negative results, like when you ask a question where the answer is no, sometimes the semantic links in the kndex can get the search engine to make suggestions of a specific mistaken assumption you’ve made.