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I never knew that. I always just thought those words were parsed out as noise. You're saying that whole questions help? Also sometimes when I search I don't kn
by cko 10y ago
I never knew that. I always just thought those words were parsed out as noise. You're saying that whole questions help?
Also sometimes when I search I don't know exactly what I'm looking for, so it takes a few queries to learn the basic vocabulary of the area I want to learn about. So putting a few keyword guesses into the box seems to work. In other words I never expect to land on a good website on my first try because I don't even know the right vocabulary.
Is there a better way to do it?
- Tyr42 10y agoThere is some parsing. Try "How far away is the Moon?". Then try "How big is it?". Google even knows how to handle the pronoun "it". But I think this mostly works for facts, as opposed to finding websites.
- DanBC 10y ago> Is there a better way to do it? Who knows? Google used to tell people how to search. SEO arseholes ruined it for everyone, and now Google has an opaque mechanism. If I don't kno much abotu something asking a full question seems to get useful introductory pages. If I know a bit about something keywords seems to work. I'm I know a lot about something I have to include "exact" words, and use the - to remove some not relevant terms. Google went from being a precision tool to good enough most of the time.