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Pluvious

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15. The way these fancy search engines work...
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 04:55 PM
Jan 11

... when parsing out a natural language query, is to break the sentence down into "tokens" then search its data base for matching patterns to the tokens.

So the phrase: "...a 15 year old hip replacement" gets transformed to the two tokens:
"A 15 year old" and "hip replacement"

It is programmed to re-state the question it's responding to in the format it had been internally tokenized, which hopefully will make clear to the user the specific and unambiguous question it's is answering.

When you compose a query to ask a search engine, it's helpful to do it in such a way that there is no possible ambiguity when it performs the parsing-out of the token phrases.

So something like: "Is it possible that a person will experience back pain caused by a hip replacement operation which had been performed 15 years prior?"

I hope this helps

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I find Google AI arrogant, inaccurate, argumentative bucolic_frolic Jan 11 #1
I agree completely with your comments at the end of the post RockCreek Jan 11 #2
A I is GIGO creon Jan 11 #3
Some. nt Javaman Jan 11 #4
It's weird how big corps think that slapping the word "AI" on everything means people won't notice their product is shit EarlG Jan 11 #5
I was amused to see the ".ai" internet suffix belonging to Anguilla as "valuable" since AI companies want it muriel_volestrangler Jan 11 #6
I agree that a lot of machine learning can be extremely useful. But I wouldn't include generative AI in highplainsdem Jan 11 #7
It's like when you see a bottled water labeled "Gluten Free!" ToxMarz Jan 11 #9
AND "Caffeine free" BumRushDaShow Jan 11 #12
Way back before Google BumRushDaShow Jan 11 #11
Where AI is perfectly suited is the modern day PT Barnum's ToxMarz Jan 11 #8
Don't get medical information from any internet search. I've seen more batshit crazy shite than minutes I have Raftergirl Jan 11 #10
Unfortunately, with access to doctors now being killed off due to a lack of health insurance thanks to the GOP BumRushDaShow Jan 11 #14
I've been having some back pain so I googled a question about whether a 15 year old hip replacement Vinca Jan 11 #13
The way these fancy search engines work... Pluvious Jan 11 #15
Just for grins, I submitted the reworded question to Gemini... Pluvious Jan 11 #16
Thanks for taking the time to do that. Vinca Jan 11 #17
My pleasure Vinca... Pluvious Jan 11 #18
just say an OLD hip replacement Skittles Jan 11 #19
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