{"id":2745,"date":"2009-07-14T20:36:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T20:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2009-07-14T20:36:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T20:36:48","slug":"search-query-ambiguity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2009\/07\/14\/search-query-ambiguity\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Search Query Ambiguity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting-sounding new book suggests new ways of enabling better search-engine experiences, by presenting search-results differently according to the ambiguity of the search (i.e., show the results differently depending on what type of dummy the user seems to be).  <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Search-Query-Ambiguity-lists-enough\/dp\/3838301404\/\">Search Query Ambiguity<\/a><\/em> (June 2009) looks at how&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Web search-engines currently do not guide users to construct less ambiguous (i.e., better) search queries, and do not sort results [ <em>usefully<\/em> ]. [&#8230;] This book provides new methods of presenting and sorting search results based on search query ambiguity, without resorting to slow-loading and white-spaced-filled graphical methods [&#8230;] three methods of information visualization and of sorting results are analysed in the environments of both single-term and multi-term search queries&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although, as I wrote recently <a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2009\/06\/28\/an-interview-with-your-browser\/\">on this blog<\/a>, this may be thinking about things the wrong way round &mdash; and may also not be practical due to the strain on back-end computational resources at the Google server farms. <\/p>\n<p>We might instead use browser-embedded individual &#8216;search-profiles&#8217; to silently shape the search terms and modifiers on-the-fly, in the browser, before they even hit the engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting-sounding new book suggests new ways of enabling better search-engine experiences, by presenting search-results differently according to the ambiguity &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2009\/07\/14\/search-query-ambiguity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to-improve-academic-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}