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How Google Instant’s Autocomplete Suggestions Work - SearchEngineLand
Danny Sullivan's detailed look at how Google's auto-complete and instant search, which seems to be populated by a combination of many recent searches and long-term frequent searches. They have an inconsistent policy on removing negative terms from the suggested list. He thinks they should just remove them without fuss.
These examples emphasize how enterprises and web sites should keep very strict control over their autocomplete (and spelling) suggestions, rather than rely on technology. -
Error-Tolerance and The Long Tail of Search in Ecommerce « Exorbyte Blog
In e-commerce, it's much better to find something than nothing. Spellchecking and other tools for inexact matching can improve results for the long tail of unique and near-unique queries. Exorbyte reports increases of conversion from 5% to 20% - at least somewhat related to their error tolerance.
tags: long tail relevance spellchecker search logs analytics
links: Google Autocomplete & Instant, Exorbyte Long Tail of Ecommerce Search
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searchtools in abeyance
Due to professional commitments and health issues, I'm not updating this blog.
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Who owns Search in the Enterprise?
Sometimes it's IT, Communications, HR, everyone, or no one. None of these by themselves are sustainable for supporting information access in the long…
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Fall Enterprise Search Summit is coming soon
The Enterprise Search Summit will be in Washington, CD, from November 1 to 3, and it's looking good! We're concentrating on strategies for making…
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