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My understanding is that the superior quality of Google searches has less to do with indexing and speech analysis and more to do with how they contextualize a u
by CivBase 6y ago
My understanding is that the superior quality of Google searches has less to do with indexing and speech analysis and more to do with how they contextualize a user's searches against their treasure trove of data on said user - data which is harvested from the huge variety of products and services they offer across their whole business.
- idank 6y agoGoogle's search results were great even before they knew your every move on the web. Some would argue it got worse.
- skrtskrt 6y agoThey are definitely worse, but I have attributed that to the prevalence of SEO spam. Most top results for my searches are quite literally gibberish.
- pyrale 6y agoFrequently enough, you have to scroll down a full page to see the first organic results. While SEO spam is definitely a problem, that problem is very similar to search advertising to me.
- caoilte 6y agoor maybe that just makes it easier to target adverts at you.
- anoncake 6y agoThey would be a lot better if they took the damn search query into account instead.