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What fascinates me the most about this and the earlier article is that there are apparently a huge number of people typing fully-formed questions into Google rather than just a string of keywords. What do they think Google is, the Oracle at Delphi?

To us librarians, this phenomenon has huge implications for what we do in our own little search engines aka catalogues.

You're a librarian, but it sounds like your searching strategies are about 4-5 years out of date. Search engines have gotten much better at natural language questions. Read the article again -- Google is not only answering natural language questions here; it's also making suggestions of other natural language questions!

The clear benefit of trying a natural language question first, then trying keywords strings, is that you might find the exact wording somewhere online. *Precision* is much greater. The "natural language doesn't work and entering stopwords is pointless" thing hasn't been true for years -- there are no stopwords anymore (or, more precisely, stopwords are handled differently today than they were 5 years ago, when they were just ignored).

The search strategies taught in library schools are often outdated. This is one example.

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