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Ask HN:Do you believe Natural Language Search will become bigger than Keyword Search?
Ask HN:Do you believe Natural Language Search will become bigger than Keyword Search
- breck 18y agoNo. The way search works nowadays is basically natural language search. You just leave out the articles and keep things concise. Why would I want to type "What is the temperature in Boston?" when I can just type "boston temperature"?
- lacker 18y agoWhy would you want to type "a guide to setting up a new tv that's easy enough for my mother to use" when you could just type... what? Keywordese is not as rich as natural language.
- SingAlong 18y agoDo you mean a search engine that does natural language parsing in its backend? If yes, then problem currently exists, i.e: when i search for python, i get the results relating to computer language than snakes. So a search engine that does natural language parsing can solve this. But its tough to beat big brands(people may type "python snake" and that solves the problem). But still the company can do business with the tech. So there's market for sure.
- lacker 18y agoI hope natural language interfaces eventually work. Not just for web search as we use it today, for all sorts of things. Think how great Hacker News would be if you could search for [well written articles about concurrent programming, written by people who actually know what they're talking about] Just try to get that with a keyword search ;-)