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business search results based on the meaning of words

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Will all the search engines (yahoo, google, msn, ask, accoona) join hands to improve the relevance of business search results based on the meaning of words, rather than the traditional keyword matching methodology?
 
You lost me...

What do you mean James?

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I was kinda lost on that myself. Perhaps, he means something like if you search "snakes" it knows you mean sites with snakes, not a plumbers site with those snakes they use to unblock drains? He talks about linking words, so maybe meaning if you search for, I don't know..........San Diego Gopher snake, you get links that have some guy in San Diego who has a site on how to kill gophers, because 2 of the words matched, or maybe golf courses, and you get a site where the guy teaches courses in palm reading, who mentions he went golfing the other day. Course by those examples can't you put a + between the words or put the words in parenthesis, to get exact messages? I don't know :laugh: I'm just grasping here.
 
u got me reptile breeder!

thats what i have been looking out for because frankly i am fed up of results which dont mean a thing except a big waste of time....if search engines pool in their past learning and experience and come up with something smart that can read our mind and pull up what we want from the big pool of resources it has out there........we would be livin' in a much rosier world.

Altho accoona is making tall claims of being artificially intelligent, as a newbie, i dont trust it much. it has to prove itself before anything else about it can be given a thot. On second thots, i wud give it a chance... :)
 
....if search engines pool in their past learning and experience and come up with something smart that can read our mind and pull up what we want from the big pool of resources it has out there........we would be livin' in a much rosier world.
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I'm from the generation when having TV sets was a luxury and if you had it there were only 3 black and white channels from which to choose from. Yes, computers have simplified a lot of things but have also made obsolete other, that in my opinion were very important. Do I want a machine to interpret the complexity of our thoughts? No, that's not for me (at least at this point). I use search engines almost daily as part of my work. The key is precisely using the right "key" words, even if you have to type half a dozen of them. One way or the other, I'm still grateful I have to use my brain. The day I won't need to use it any more, I'll be more than likely out of a job (although I'd be retired then anyways :) )
 
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