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Definitely valid point (that there are very different types of "search", not just one universal way to do things), but: 2) Google does not do simple keyword ma
by halflings 8y ago
Definitely valid point (that there are very different types of "search", not just one universal way to do things), but:
2) Google does not do simple keyword matching, and certainly has a strong sense of "semantics".
3) Try searching "Cheap hotels in San Francisco" or "Plumber jobs in Chicago" in Google. Just because it's a single search box does not mean all results are generated/displayed in the same way.
- Radim 8y agoAbsolutely. Determining query intent is an ancient, well researched and still active domain. And Google publishes their results regularly (kudos to them). My point was more that encoding the relevant signals into a single general-purpose search box (a sort-of natural language) is an inherently noisy, ambiguous process. When you know what kind of search you want, it's better to factor out the relevant parameters and feedback loops explicitly, give them a clear UI and search flow. Rather than have users fumble with double quotes and double-guessing the query parser.
- bobosha 8y ago@Radim - is this something you are doing with your current startup? p.s. kudos from another fan of gensim.