• GamingChairModel@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Longer queries give better opportunities for error correction, like searching for synonyms and misspellings, or applying the right context clues.

    In this specific example, “is Angelina Jolie in Heat” gives better results than “Angelina Jolie heat,” because the words that make it a complete sentence question are also the words that give confirmation that the searcher is talking about the movie.

    Especially with negative results, like when you ask a question where the answer is no, sometimes the semantic links in the kndex can get the search engine to make suggestions of a specific mistaken assumption you’ve made.