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I think he's just talking about a parser that can convert jarin's latest comment on YC news to something like site:news.ycombinator.com "jarin" sort-by:d
by wlievens 16y ago
I think he's just talking about a parser that can convert
jarin's latest comment on YC news
to something like
site:news.ycombinator.com "jarin" sort-by:date
(pseudo-syntax mine of course)
- nl 16y agoso.. It needs to understand that "jarin" is the username on a website called news.ycombinator.com, which allows comments, and these comments are different to the stories posted on the site. But of course "Obama's latest comment on CBS news" means the president's comments on the CBS TV channel's news service. An equally obviously "Brook's latest comment on Fukushima" would refer to a blog post by Barry Brooks on the Fukushima reactor problems on his blog http://bravenewclimate.com/ http://bravenewclimate.com/ Oh, and that "sort-by:date" bit needs to understand the difference between comment date, published date and any dates referenced in the comment or post. Easy! The truth is that currently Google doesn't do too badly on any of those queries, without any special parsing or "understanding".
- wlievens 16y agoI agree with all that, to be honest. Google does a good enough job.