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nhebb on Feb 21, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: What's ailing Hacker News?

I'm not sure this data is meaningful. I recall searching for several real symptoms that I had, and the step 2 options were so far off that I decided to just try the suggested searches to see the sample results.

cmonsen on Feb 21, 2012 [–]

We observed that we had exact concept matches for over 2/3rds of the symptoms searched on the first try.

To get the rest we are doing two things: 1. adding common queries without matches into our symptom vocab 2. improving the suggested searches algorithm

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