Providing guided search includes: receiving a new query; processing the new query to obtain a plurality of models, wherein a model indicates a mapping relationship of a previously stored query and corresponding guidance information; determining a corresponding plurality of similarities of the plurality of models relative to the new query; obtaining guidance information in a database comprising a plurality of mapping relationships of previously stored query and corresponding guidance information, including selecting at least some of the plurality of models based at least in part on the similarities and using the selected models as index to search the database; and sending the obtained guidance information to be displayed to a user.
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