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How Search Engines May Substitute Other Search Terms for Yours

Went Hot: May 19, 2008 - 2:36 pm
Posted By: planetc1 147 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Searching

Bill Slawski writes... When you search for something at a search engine, the search engine might not just try to find pages on the web which match the keywords that you searched with, but may first try to expand upon those keywords by finding similar or related terms.

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from incrediblehelp 147 days ago #

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I wonder if their is a whole group/department at the SE's that are dedicated to creating these group associations?

from Dudibob 146 days ago #

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Google bought a company a while ago that specialise in lantent symantics so no surprise on Google's part.

I've noticed that Google, Yahoo and MSN all use related search terms, but I didn't know Yahoo was combining search results, I understand Google does this for Adwords and hints organically.

from JohnHGohde 78 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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Works in PubMed, the U.S. government medical research database search engine, but in Google is not appreciated beyond returning different tenses of a search term.