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You don't know for sure what a user means by a query. You can make informed guesses. Typical tricks include looking at what users in the same area have searched

by antics 13y ago

You don't know for sure what a user means by a query. You can make informed guesses. Typical tricks include looking at what users in the same area have searched for, looking at previous queries (turns out a lot of searches are repeated), looking for "replaceable results" (results that appear on multiple pages), and so on. And no MS could not have pulled off the same thing. The data MS has about you is not even close to the data GOogle has on you.

lazyjones 13y ago
> The data MS has about you is not even close to the data GOogle has on you. Also, users have adapted and are trained to work with Google nowdays, they memorize how to find particular results on Google (even though Google puts a lot of effort into breaking features like "link:...").