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> Gilles Tran wrote:
>> In any case, think about specific keywords closely associated to your 
>> topic that are likely to be in your target pages and add them to your 
>> search.
>
> Or, alternately stated, remember that Google indexes answers, not 
> questions. If you don't know what the answer looks like already, you're 
> unlikely to find it
.
Yes, people tend to use general search terms as if the search engine was a 
real person with actual semantic abilities (and a real person is able to 
deduce or ask for missing context). Instead, I told them to imagine what 
sort of document would contain the answer and derive search keywords from 
that. I nicknamed that "empathy search" since one had to put oneself in the 
shoes of the writers of the target documents. Sometimes this requires doing 
preliminary searches for identifiying the proper vocabulary. All of this is 
less useful now because Google has become extremely efficient but that's 
still handy for difficult searches with a lot of noise.

G.

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