Search Strategies for Large Document Searching

摘要

Google, Bing, and most of the other remaining search engines focus their algo-rithms and engineering efforts on combating spam and optimizing results so that when we search for recipes, movies, restaurants, music, news, or a basic topic overview, we get helpful results. Newer artificial intelligence initiatives, such as Google's RankBrain, increasingly focus on converting query words into concepts and related topics rather than matching actual words. The objective is to deliver search results that will be relevant for both common queries and unusual ones. However, since expert information professionals-people like us who are trying to dig deeply into the huge textual index of web-accessible information content-are a very small minority of web searchers, search engines do not optimize their algorithms and engineering efforts for us.