IOW how queries ought to work. I am perfectly capable of changing the precision of my query to affect recall; I prefer that no "algorithm" ruins that ability.
Interesting. I searched for "what is jit oauth" and got no results.
I did end up getting results with "jit oauth" (quotes not in search), but not great ones.
To be fair, google didn't give me great results for either of those queries either
edit: What I was looking for was related to JWTs, not necessarily oauth, and the actual claim in spec is "JTI" (but I believe a service whose traffic I was inspecting used "jit" instead)
Back when people-facing computer stuff worked more like computer-facing computer stuff, queries were simple: keywords to match. If you get too many results, add more keywords; if you get too few, remove* keywords (or change existing keywords to be more specific/more general respectively).
If you're not searching for literal occurrences of "what" and "is", why should they even be in a query?
* this is an instance of an adjunction, which is an important concept in informatics, but I understand that to actually admit the fact would probably be the kiss of death for anything claiming to be a "user" interface.
It's a balancing act. I think Marginalia is a bit too literal with the search terms right now, and Google is way too far off in the other end of the spectrum.
Query understanding is one of the things I'm hoping to address this year. It's very crude right now with some pretty obvious low hanging fruit in the scientific literature that's ripe for implementation.
What's annoying about this design, when there's such a small corpus, is that I need to search for many permutations of a query in order to find good results.
Without a feature like this, I want to have another feature that allows me to search for multiple queries at the same time and interleave the results.
But I also understand the advantages. C'est la vie.
IOW how queries ought to work. I am perfectly capable of changing the precision of my query to affect recall; I prefer that no "algorithm" ruins that ability.