Showing posts with label search engines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label search engines. Show all posts
Thursday, March 1, 2012

Search Challenge 002

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A very popular search challenge is the Kermit Challenge. I'd rate this a novice challenge and a good one to introduce elementary lev...
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Thursday, October 22, 2009

For Elementary Students the Challenge is...

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The younger a student is, the more challenging searching becomes. On average, middle school students have more difficulty than high school s...
Monday, September 28, 2009

Revisiting Stop Words and Clutter Words

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The final item on the Query Checklist that I'm revisiting is #7: Did I use any stop words or clutter words? Briefly, stop words are ter...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Revisiting words with multiple meanings

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Of the items on the Query Checklist , one that could be dropped is #6: avoiding words that have multiple meanings. If your query includes an...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Revisiting Word Order

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When does the order of keywords matter? The ninth item of the query checklist was always last because keyword order mattered the least. Th...
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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Query Checklist Revisited

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A number of years ago, we published the Query Checklist , a guide for turning questions into queries. I seldom think about the checklist any...
Monday, August 17, 2009

More information, a smaller fraction

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I'm still thinking about my last post. The paradoxical thing about information and searching is that the more of it there is, the less o...
Saturday, August 15, 2009

Is Searching Getting Easier?

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There's little doubt that search engines are indispensable when it comes to searching for information online. But is searching easier to...