July 2019 - SEO by the Sea ⚓

How would Google Answer Vague Questions in Queries?

04/28/202107/17/2019 by Bill Slawski

“How Long is Harry Potter?” is asked in a diagram from a Google Patent. The answer to this vague question is unlikely to do with a length related to the fictional character but may have something to do with one of the best-selling books or movies featuring Harry Potter. When questions are asked as queries … Read more

How Google May Handle Question Answering when Facts are Missing

04/28/202107/10/2019 by Bill Slawski

In 2017, I wrote about a similar patent in the post, Google Extracts Facts from the Web to Provide Fact Answers The patent this post about starts with saying that Google may have a problem with answering questions from facts it collects from the Web to fill its knowledge graph: Embodiments relate to relational models … Read more