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Wow, 15% unique searches is indeed quite an interesting figure. With that said, what OP said is definitely not disproved. Just because 15% of searches are uniqu

• i_cant_speel 7y ago
  Especially with voice searches. People are searching entire sentences rather than specific keywords which are much more likely to be unique.
  • b_tterc_p 7y ago
    Do people do this? Or do you mean queries forwarded by home assistants trying to parse inputs?
    • quirkot 7y ago
      can confirm. i search full sentences even from the keyboard
    • JustSomeNobody 7y ago
      I search full sentences (questions) from the keyboard. I figure I'm not the only to have had the question before, so I ask. Also, I find that blog posts, etc. tend to match well for full sentences.
    • have_faith 7y ago
      > Do people do this? The calling card of the developer realising that real users never act like you expect :)
      • steve76 7y ago
        Search is nothing. They already have the brand, browser, and devices. If someone wants an online ad, they go straight to google. Not any other network which is probably shadow owned by them, like my ability to buy food is their secret gay fraternity hazing scheme. I suggest you take a look at the fraud associated with Adsense bans. They make a ton of money, and then, drive you into the poor house by just not sending your check. Pretty much, Google knows we took your life savings. Fuck you. Die.
      • zadkey 7y ago
        Real users will use your product in ways you never imagined.
    • sct202 7y ago
      I often do full sentences and then start deleting words from it if it doesn't work.
    • GordonS 7y ago
      Heh, yes, they do. Which is a reminder that devs are not "typical" users. As a developer, I search using keywords; for example, if I was looking for property for sale in Inverness, I might search for "property Inverness", whereas I've seen and heard "typical" users use something like "find me a 2 bedroom house with a garden for sale in the North of Inverness" - much more verbose, and containing stop words and phrases unlikely to help (I think!).
      • zamalek 7y ago
        With voice I use sentences: it's far more reliable because of the Markov model (or whatever predictive model they are using).
      • aurbano 7y ago
        I do the same as you, but was just thinking that if most users search using full sentences then Google will spend most effort optimizing for that, so maybe we're the ones getting the worse results?
        • wutbrodo 7y ago
          No, the optimization they do for the low-quality query is more than balanced out by the higher clarity and relevance of a well-phrased query. There are often extraneous words that aren't simple stop words, and they're not 100% successful at removing these extraneous ones.
      • eitland 7y ago
        > As a developer, I search using keywords; So did I. Around the time I left Google behind I had started to search like my wife did, using full sentences. it sometimes worked better I think.
      • rurp 7y ago
        I almost always search keywords while my girlfriend uses sentences and we often get quite different results. If I'm having trouble finding a good result there's a pretty good chance she will find something quickly. Surprisingly this holds true even for programming questions on topics that I know well and she's never heard of before.
    • flatline 7y ago
      What does it matter whether it came from an assistant or not? Natural language is likely the preferred search input method for kids under a certain age, who cannot yet type fluently. My kids formulate very long, complex queries verbally. The other day my son asked Alexa why the machine gun is such a deadly weapon. She replied with a snippet from Wikipedia that was surprisingly relevant.