Habrachernovik: Ranking search results for incomplete matches

Question

Search engines

Probably each of us has come across such a situation when, in response to a query in a search string containing several words separated by spaces, one search engine wrote something like: The

desired combination of words does not occur anywhere

but, another , on the same line, something the same:

No document found matching the query

This often happens if one or more words in the query are spelled differently than in the searched document. Such a nuisance happens, for example, when this document was run through a synonymizer before publication. And, here, dances with tambourines begin.

By the way, once, a long time ago , search engines, instead of this concise answer, nevertheless gave out options withincomplete coincidence, but now apparently it has become out of fashion .

And, you have to make a few more requests, sequentially deleting one word at a time, until SUDDENLY at least some non-empty response is received.

Question: How to make such "clarification" requests to search engines more painlessly?

Answer 1

Alternatively, the same synonyms, we replace one or more words from the query with synonyms and offer the user "Perhaps you meant ...... ..."