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What are you searching for though? Some people care about the Elm language and some people are looking for information about the tree or location.
by robjan 7y ago
What are you searching for though? Some people care about the Elm language and some people are looking for information about the tree or location.
- lern_too_spel 7y agoThe "list" in the query string makes the intent clear.
- andrewflnr 7y agoNo, not really. Could be a list of elm tree species, or something even more specific (most famous elm trees, species vulnerable to some disease, etc) that's immediately obvious if you're plugged in to the arborist community instead of the hacker community.
- Trombone12 7y agoNo, "array" would be unambiguous. Asking for a list of different elm species a valid interpretation.
- lern_too_spel 7y agoA valid but very unlikely interpretation, which is the point. Every query is ambiguous, but if certain interpretations are much more likely than others, the search engine should respond accordingly. Someone interested in a list of elm species is much more likely to search for "elm species."
- ItsMattyG 7y agoIt may be that this is true of people who use google but less true of people who use Bing.
- lern_too_spel 7y agoIt is very unlikely to be the case. Much more likely is that Bing either doesn't have enough search data to properly answer that query or does not have a ranking model that can answer that query correctly.