tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740587624929874800.post6012692830513399749..comments2023-06-27T10:58:57.192-05:00Comments on Internet Search Challenge: Revisiting Word OrderInformationFluencyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02769159180351440125noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740587624929874800.post-65006254671817369392009-09-17T08:06:43.170-05:002009-09-17T08:06:43.170-05:00Your points are well taken. From a practical persp...Your points are well taken. From a practical perspective, I don't think most people will think to repeat queries once they've done them, except maybe to look again at a result they didn't check out the first time. Then they may notice variations in the results obtained. I found some minor changes in the results the second time I submitted a query, which--as you found--indicates there are dynamic things to which the search algorithm is sensitive. Word order swapping still produces fewer new results than trying the same query in a different database.<br /><br />Your use of the NOT operator is typically something I try to avoid. I may address the strategy of exclusion in an upcoming blog and welcome your input.InformationFluencyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02769159180351440125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740587624929874800.post-63855136957521720382009-09-17T02:14:10.265-05:002009-09-17T02:14:10.265-05:00Hi Carl-
Having worked with Google on a major dat...Hi Carl-<br /><br />Having worked with Google on a major database project which used Googlebase and Google, we found we could not predict the Google search results from day to day.<br /><br />It seems the almighty search algorithm includes either a number of hits history or click through history component- perhaps both.<br /><br />I'd suggest doing your test over two or three days and documenting results..I think you'll be suprized. I waited a couple of hours and the results changed with some finely honed keywords (scientific and consumer level botanical names).<br /><br />Another thought- Everyone seems to think I'm pretty good with searches (writer, analyst, words? What can I tell you?) and find the real issue is narrowing the search...which is why I do a general search first- if I get what I need, I'm done. If I get a lot of strays, I go into the advanced search and start narrowing the results using a lot of NOT boolean logic on common hits which are confusing the issue.Scot Witthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12262118207864668914noreply@blogger.com