Comments on: Google is putting more emphasis on phrases http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/01/18/google-is-putting-more-emphasis-on-phrases/ Understanding technology ... in both senses of the phrase Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:41:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Misc Ramblings and Link Love - 25 Jan 08 http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/01/18/google-is-putting-more-emphasis-on-phrases/#comment-31798 Misc Ramblings and Link Love - 25 Jan 08 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:59:51 +0000 http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/01/18/google-is-putting-more-emphasis-on-phrases/#comment-31798 [...] Technologies posted a great article on how google is emhpasizing on phrases within the text or the [...] [...] Technologies posted a great article on how google is emhpasizing on phrases within the text or the [...]

]]> By: Curt Monash http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/01/18/google-is-putting-more-emphasis-on-phrases/#comment-31358 Curt Monash Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:55:34 +0000 http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/01/18/google-is-putting-more-emphasis-on-phrases/#comment-31358 Thanks, Jay. That would help explain the asymmetry between the treatment of AND and OR. Thanks, Jay. That would help explain the asymmetry between the treatment of AND and OR.

]]> By: Jay Levitt http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/01/18/google-is-putting-more-emphasis-on-phrases/#comment-31347 Jay Levitt Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:42:14 +0000 http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/01/18/google-is-putting-more-emphasis-on-phrases/#comment-31347 Google has always said that "or", as a lower-case word, is a search term, and that "OR", as a capitalized word, is the boolean-or search operator. I think "or" in lower case used to be a stopword, rather than a true search term, but now I can't remember. It never functioned as an operator. Google has always said that “or”, as a lower-case word, is a search term, and that “OR”, as a capitalized word, is the boolean-or search operator.

I think “or” in lower case used to be a stopword, rather than a true search term, but now I can’t remember. It never functioned as an operator.

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