How imporant will natural language search be in the future?
Share your thoughts. Ask illustrates the difference with a couple sample queries, saying that the most successful answers won’t get clicked: The company says it is seeing increased loyalty from users who conduct question searches, and has seen “a pronounced increase” in the percentage of users who conduct queries in the form of a question. In fact, they claim to see three times more questions as a share of total queries than their competitors. “Indeed, the information that is directly relevant to many questions most certainly exists; it’s just that it’s locked in people’s heads or captured in unpublished conversations, and therefore inaccessible by traditional search,” says Ask President Doug Leeds. “Obviously, this is not a trivial deficiency in a world that is increasingly interconnected and clamoring for perspective, guidance, and shared knowledge at an interpersonal level online.” Ask is setting out to extract and rank existing answers, and index sources of answers that have not ye
