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Sense equivalence search engine

Submitted by: Tom_4tune
Created: Aug 6, 2006, 1:20 pm

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You write an expression in the search field and the search engine is looking in the saved equivalence expressions with the same sense and the results are listed on a page.

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The search engines I know can?t do that. It is important when you want to have a full information conglomerate to a theme.

Comments Posted

Aidan Posted: August 7, 2006, 2:43 am

Your description doesn't make any sense to me. Are you saying the search engine should give you results which are for a search for something which means something similar to what you typed in?

The reason existing search engines *don't* do that is because there are so many results for the words you *do* type in. Google (among others) will suggest alternatives if it thinks you have spelled something incorrectly. It will also use the different tenses/cases of words (e.g. If you type 'jumped' it will look for 'jumped', 'jump', 'jumping', 'jumps' etc.).

Taking the next step and looking for 'leap' instead of 'jump' could change the entire context of what you are looking for and give you meaningless results. This is due to the nature of the English language (although most languages are nearly as bad) in that many of our words have multiple meanings.

Tom_4tune Posted: August 7, 2006, 11:37 am

A search for something which means something similar e.g. Computer and PC.

fossiloflife Posted: June 14, 2007, 12:29 am

?????????

vanhees Posted: June 14, 2007, 12:52 am

Google is hinting with alternative words. If you look for example for “Kawasaki” is suggests you other brands.
Tommy

Fitzpatrick Posted: June 19, 2007, 1:05 am

Please clarify what you mean

Tom_4tune Posted: June 30, 2007, 9:38 am

You write an expression in the search field e.g. Computer and the search engine is looking in the saved equivalence expressions e.g. PC , Notebook, ... with the same sense and the results are listed on a page.

PC or Computer both is the same in reality.

zentropy Posted: November 7, 2007, 1:02 pm

Doesn't google code search do the same?

http://www.google.com/codesearch

darlinglilred Posted: November 7, 2007, 3:03 pm

I'm confused you seem to have alot of ideas posted in this round that are from the summer. Which I have no problem with, however, it doesn;t look like you have taken previous comments and suggestions to heart before reposting.

Rich2809 Posted: November 8, 2007, 1:32 pm

hard to grasp

JeanRoSe Posted: November 8, 2007, 7:33 pm

me neither.

Brenden Posted: November 14, 2007, 7:26 am

how

tlyden Posted: December 31, 2007, 9:37 pm

uh wha?

Hello!

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