Re:We can do better than DuckDuckGo
by nl on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @10:10PM
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> Hrm, I think it's extremely iffy to abbreviate South Australia like that in a search query.
Everyone in Australia uses "SA" - this is one of the reasons why location based context is important.
> You don't need the "for" either.
I worked on consumer search for a few years, and on text based search word like "for" are helpful to get exact match. Even if the term frequency of "for" on its own isn't particularly useful "for SA" absolutely is. (And these days with neural ranking using sub-word parts it is even more useful).
Everyone in Australia uses "SA" - this is one of the reasons why location based context is important.
> You don't need the "for" either.
I worked on consumer search for a few years, and on text based search word like "for" are helpful to get exact match. Even if the term frequency of "for" on its own isn't particularly useful "for SA" absolutely is. (And these days with neural ranking using sub-word parts it is even more useful).