Comments on: Bing's Not Too Shabby for Natural Language Searches

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By: Priyanka D

Priyanka D — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:59:53 +0000

I used it on a few… its ok.
For ‘whats what in google analytics’ I am getting lot of results almost all from google.com/something

Tried on a few other search sentences, didnt really see anything really different actually

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By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:26:29 +0000

If these features aren’t being used (as you indicated), doesn’t that imply people aren’t all that interested? I realize natural language search is the holy grail of search, but not necessarily while typed.

The average length of searches has continued to inch its way up over the years as people become more comfortable with defining search criteria in large data sets (e.g., the Internet). However, new users typically only type one or two words, not entire sentences. Average users will type a few words, but not complete sentences. And super users will type several keywords and occasionally use additional qualifiers or boolean logic.

I’m just having trouble understanding the situation that creates the need for natural language searching within the current user’s workflow. A clever technology, no doubt. Important for the next step, absolutely. But I’d rather ask Hal verbally or simply type a few cleverly selected keywords.