When you don’t get the results that you expect from a internet or intranet search engine, is it because the search engine isn’t very good, or is it because there isn’t much indexable information on the web or intranet document repository that contains content related to that search?

A new patent application discusses how the folks who run search engines might identify difficult queries where there may not be much content collected by the search engine on certain topics. The process in the patent filing provides search engines the chance to offer searchers suggestions for queries where they may find an answer to questions that they may be searching for, or to allow indexing efforts from the engines to work on filling those gaps.

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