stop words
If you've ever searched for anything, you've probably run into stop words [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words]. Stop words are words so common they are typically ignored for search purposes. That is, if you type in a stop word as one of your search
information retrieval
I'm currently reading through Peter Morville's [http://findability.org/] excellent book Ambient Findability [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596007655/codihorr-20]. It cites some papers that attempt to explain the search behavior of web users, starting with the berrypicking model: > In a 1989 article
search engines
Let's say I was to search Google for the word Jaguar: There's an immediate problem. The semantics of Jaguar only exist in my head, not in any search box. Did I mean... * Jaguar the car? * OSX Jaguar? * Jaguar the animal? * The Atari Jaguar? * Austin Power'