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@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ _precision_ or _discounted cumulative gain_.
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Search quality evaluation starts with looking at the users of your search application, and the things that they are searching for.
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Users have a specific _information need_, e.g. they are looking for gift in a web shop or want to book a flight for their next holiday.
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-They usually enters some search terms into a search box or some other web form.
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+They usually enter some search terms into a search box or some other web form.
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All of this information, together with meta information about the user (e.g. the browser, location, earlier preferences etc...) then gets translated into a query to the underlying search system.
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The challenge for search engineers is to tweak this translation process from user entries to a concrete query in such a way, that the search results contain the most relevant information with respect to the users information need.
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Jesse Wright