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Question for +AJ Kohn - why does Google highlight both "temporal" and "dreaming" in this search query?
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AJ Kohn+2While I'm not going to address this in the blog post (because it's already pretty long), I wonder how categorization and/or topics might influence these types of queries.
Cutting to the chase, would identifying the document as belonging to the books and literature category provide additional information that would allow the algorithm to make the right decision in terms of synonyms or related query refinement?
In just a matter of a few minutes +Bill Slawski and I were able to think of a handful of examples. That said, it still might be too granular in nature.Dec 12, 2011
Classification is one approach, but it might be part of a more lengthy approach that might be helpful.
Named entity indentification and association could potentially help this kind of "bug" from happening by having the search engine become aware that while [the dreaming void] and the [the temporal void] might potentially be seen as contextual synonyms, they are unique entities on their own, even though very related.
If they were classified as books, and then identified as specific books, they might not be treated as synonyms in search results, though it might not be a bad idea to include them as recommended related topics below search results.Dec 12, 2011- Exactly.
They're certainly highly relevant (and related) to each other, no doubt about that. So you do still want to return that data, but perhaps not as a query results refinement.Dec 12, 2011 - It's something helpful for people to see, but not necessarily inline in the search results themselves. linking to it as a related search would be great though. :)Dec 12, 2011
Detailed post by +AJ Kohn on this topic: http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/query-synonymsDec 12, 2011- Thanks for the question and great dialog +Dan Petrovic.Dec 12, 2011
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