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6 Sep 2024 01:23:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Why semantic search reeks  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 27 May 2009 15:05:16
Message: <4a1d8eec@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> gregjohn wrote:
>> I think that this shows why I hate semantic search.
> 
> It's usually more of a problem when the search results you're looking for
> aren't actually indexed.
> 
> And my favorite screw-up was naming it "C# .NET"  Hey MS, could you
> possibly have picked a name for a technology that would be harder to
> search for? Maybe something consisting only of hyphens and spaces?

I'm sure Google had to add a special case in order to find "C++". Or maybe
it uses the sheer amount of results having it. It would usually ignore that
punctuation.


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