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Showing posts with label search engine guideance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label search engine guideance. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Controlling search engine guidance

Depending on the results of a search query, the search engine may offer guidance for a follow-on query. For example, if a query generates lots of hits, the search engine may suggest super phrases (queries with more terms) to narrow the search. Alternatively, if a query doesn't generate any hits, the search engine may suggest sub-phrases to widen the search. The suggested phrases appear before the actual hits, if there are any. (See Phrasal Query Suggestions in the Search Library for a discussion of search guidance.)

A new option has been added to the search engine to control the number of suggested super and sub-phrases: phraseN sets the maximum number of suggestions to N. If N is zero, no suggestions are shown. For more details and an example, please see the Search Guide.