Google-Stemming keeps getting better

Johannes Beus
I am able to observe, for a few days now, what seems to be the activation of a new level of evolution of Google's Stemming-algorithm for the German index. While, in the beginning, Google was, at most, able to discern between singular and plural and also showed sites for searches which did not exactly contain the queried term, it seems they continuously made changes. The search for CTR now returns not only sites which contain “CTR” but also those that write out Click-Through-Rate in full and additionally Stanford Universities “Center for Turbulence Research” which is also abbreviated with CTR. An interesting step which might not be a milestone in the history of searches but which nicely portraits how searchengines are evolving from programs that find exactly what a user inputs, to intelligent models which can recognize the purpose that stands behind a searchquery.

Johannes Beus

 Johannes Beus, Founder and CEO of SISTRIX, has been interested in the optimisation of websites for searchengines since 2001. In 2003 he started to regularly publish summaries of his evaluations and share his thoughts on the SEO-sector on one of the oldest German SEO-blogs.
Johannes Beus - on Mon (07/02/2007) at 22:55 PM

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