Rather than asking search engines to know what they mean and entering queries in plain English, he argues, users have grown accustomed to talking to algorithms in a jumble of nouns and verbs that can read like nonsensical Mad Lib responses and lead to vague results.
Stefan Weitz stated, "A lot of us have grown up with Google over the last decade and that’s problematic when you want to advance the state of the art,” he said during an interview with the Huffington Post. “People today speak in pidgin English when they speak to a search engine… What people are not doing is challenging all engines to do more.”
To read more, check out the article in the Huffington Post
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If Stefan Weitz is asking me to learn how to do a proper Boolean search...forget it. He's just mad Google is a mind reader.
Truly though, Google is successful precisely because it is simple and accessible - not just for adults, not just for an educated elite, not just for students or academics. Google takes search to the masses!
Kaitlin,
I totally agree, and personally I'm not a fan of Bing. I think this is a clever strategy though for Bing to reach out to Huffington Post users though to spark an interest in Bing, and perhaps decide to give it a try...only then they will probably reinforce their preference to Google.
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