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Re:EU Open Web Search project kicked off by mellavora on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @05:38AM (#32922673)
> you underestimate how much of the power of search engines is being able to interpret search queries and figure out what a user is really looking for.

So you mean that a search engine is supposed to ignore what you are asking for and instead give you what it thinks you really meant?

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Re:EU Open Web Search project kicked off by wizofaus on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @03:09PM (#32929963)
If you search for [what year was queen Elizabeth born], Google doesn't return pages that have that phrase in it, rather it returns pages that have an answer to that question. You could call that "ignoring" if you like, but it's what 99% of users expect.
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