[An amazing discovery: search mechanisms need to recognise synonyms: >Seeksy can therefore cope with synonyms for the same job - think "governess" >and "nanny" - that describe apply to the same job but are used only in >different places or groups .
[Synonyms were a feature of all but the simplest of services long before Internet search-engines arrived c.1998. Think Status and Stairs in the 1960s, and their successors. [So has it really taken two decades of mucking around with dumb, brute-force approaches before someone re-discovered the previously well-known?] SEEK quadruples click-through rate with user analytics Matt Johnston itNews Oct 15 2018 https://www.itnews.com.au/news/seek-quadruples-click-through-rate-with-user-analytics-513943 -- Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/ Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 6288 6916 http://about.me/roger.clarke mailto:[email protected] http://www.xamax.com.au/ Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
