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Why We Are Here => Traffic => Topic started by: ergophobe on August 23, 2023, 08:43:08 PM

Title: Google too clever by half
Post by: ergophobe on August 23, 2023, 08:43:08 PM
Episode #19304834

Synonym matching or LSI or Semantic Topic Clustering or whatever people call it these days has a side effect I just noticed.

I sometimes do a search for people and narrow by city or state. When I do a search for Firstname Lastname Maryland, I get a lot of hits for physicians, most of whom do not live in Maryland :-)

BTW... Roger's article about how LSI has never been the right term to describe what Google does
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/latent-semantic-indexing-wont-help-seo/240705/
Title: Re: Google too clever by half
Post by: buckworks on August 23, 2023, 11:21:20 PM
I have had similar experiences when searching for businesses in Newfoundland and Labrador .... abbreviation NL.

I get lots of .nl results from the Netherlands.
Title: Re: Google too clever by half
Post by: ergophobe on August 24, 2023, 03:15:42 AM
Meaning that, like me, even though you don't search using the abbreviation, Google decides to help you out and map Newfoundland and Labrador as a synonym for Netherlands?
Title: Re: Google too clever by half
Post by: buckworks on August 24, 2023, 08:46:40 PM
Exactly.
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