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Search Result Snippets
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Search Result Snippets

Search result snippets, also known as query-biased summaries, are the additional context included with each result on the search results page. They are an essential...

Search Results Presentation
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Search Results Presentation

Until now, we’ve mostly focused on query processing — which is to be expected, given that this series is about query understanding. But given that searchers are...

Great post, and thanks for the shout-out! Excited to read the rest of the series.
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Great post, and thanks for the shout-out! Excited to read the rest of the series.

Great post, and thanks for the shout-out! Excited to read the rest of the series.

Faceted Search
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Faceted Search

Faceted search is a topic broad enough to deserve its own book. It has become a standard feature of all modern search engines, including open-source platforms like...

I didn’t say it’s illegal for search engines, hiQ, or anyone else to attempt to attempt to index…
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I didn’t say it’s illegal for search engines, hiQ, or anyone else to attempt to attempt to index…

I didn’t say it’s illegal for search engines, hiQ, or anyone else to attempt to attempt to index the LinkedIn public profiles. Quite the opposite.Here’s what I said...

Thanks Randy!
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Thanks Randy!

Thanks Randy! And I promise I’ll discuss some of the issues of mobile and voice interfaces in future posts.

Relevance Feedback
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Relevance Feedback

The idea of modeling search as a conversation has been around for decades. One of the oldest ideas in information retrieval is relevance feedback, which dates back...

I see that you object to my sentence that “When users opt to make their profiles “public”, they do…
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I see that you object to my sentence that “When users opt to make their profiles “public”, they do…

I see that you object to my sentence that “When users opt to make their profiles “public”, they do so with the expectation that their public profile will appear...

Thank you for the kind words.
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Thank you for the kind words.

Thank you for the kind words. As for your second point, Nick Bostrom defines “superintelligence” as “an intellect that is much smarter than the best human brains...

An interesting topic! I have seen sites with functionality along these lines:
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An interesting topic! I have seen sites with functionality along these lines:

An interesting topic! I have seen sites with functionality along these lines: Travel sites that inform you whether you can get better prices if your dates are flexible...

Clarification Dialogues
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Clarification Dialogues

As we saw in the previous post, modeling search as a conversation makes it possible to overcome breakdowns in communication between the searcher and the searchspelling...

Search as a Conversation
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Search as a Conversation

Most search applications assume a query-response paradigm: the searcher submits a search query, and the search engine responds with results. The query-responseprecision...

Thanks. If you’re interested in this area, I suggest you read the series of posts I’ve been writing…
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Thanks. If you’re interested in this area, I suggest you read the series of posts I’ve been writing…

Thanks. If you’re interested in this area, I suggest you read the series of posts I’ve been writing at queryunderstanding.com. Those do include more references,...

Better Search through Better Queries
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Better Search through Better Queries

I spend a lot of time helping companies improve their search engines. Much of my work involves returning better results for their users’ search queries. But there...

Personalization
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Personalization

In 1964, information science pioneer William Goffman said:Relevance is defined as a measure of information conveyed by a document relative to a query…[but] thecontext...

Thanks Andrei. Indeed, there’s a lot more to seasonality than I covered in this post.
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Thanks Andrei. Indeed, there’s a lot more to seasonality than I covered in this post.

Thanks Andrei. Indeed, there’s a lot more to seasonality than I covered in this post.

Seasonality
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Seasonality

Whether it’s the time of year or the time of day, the time when someone performs a search sometimes help us determine the searcher’s intent. As with location, it...

Geographical Context
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Geographical Context

Location often provides a strong signal of searcher intent. Sometimes location acts as an implicit part of the search query, such as when people are searching for...

Thanks, glad you like it!
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Thanks, glad you like it!

Thanks, glad you like it!

To Build Better Search, Develop Empathy With Your Users
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To Build Better Search, Develop Empathy With Your Users

User experience designers recognize the importance of empathy in the design process. Understanding how and why users engage with products yields insights that help...
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