The document discusses different types of search languages including Boolean, semantic, and natural language searches. Boolean searches use operators to specify search terms while semantic searches find related concepts. Natural language searches allow questions or sentences to describe search criteria. Future searches may use artificial intelligence for more natural language queries.

1. Sourcing Languages

2. Languages
• Boolean-came first
• Semantic-came 2nd
• Natural Language-came 3rd
• The Future-next

3. Boolean
• Boolean is a scripting language originally designed for
SQL, it is very close to scientific notation.
• Search engine specific sometimes, however may work
different in different engines
• Requires commands or operators to tell it what do to
and were to do it.
Inurl:resume Java linux -job -jobs -sample –example
Needs commands to tell it what to do-and or not (show
list talk about some)

4. Semantic Search
• Semantic Search - the idea is to search for what you really
mean by that phrase and find words and concepts that are
associated with your phrase. For instance, when you search
for a phrase containing "java," are you talking about coffee,
an island, or a programming language? This type of search
is beyond the literal to the conceptual. So a symantic
search for Java would also yield J2ee, Jee etc, think of
semantic as general in nature lots of info but not always
about the right stuff. Used a lot with targeted search
engines-Monster, linkedin, ATS, ladder. Doc-txt, pdf search
engine etc
• resume Java linux -job -jobs -sample –example

5. Natural Language
• Natural Language - is a search using regular spoken
language, such as English. Using this type of search you
can ask the database a question or you can type in a
sentence that describes the information you are
looking for. The database then uses a programmed
logic to determine the keywords in the sentence by
their position in the sentence. Example find a list of
movies playing in Seattle, wa Google facebook social
sites find resumes of java developers or people who
are developers in Seattle, Wa
• find resumes of java developers

6. Examples
• Inurl:resume Java linux -job -jobs -sample –
example Boolean
• resume Java linux -job -jobs -sample –example
Semantic
• find resumes of java developers Nat Language
• find resumes of java developers -example -job -
jobs filetype:pdf
• Facebook graph, G+ etc
People who live in Seattle, Washington and work at
Java

7. Future
• In the future there will more than likely be AIs
that know exactly what you want and all you
need to do is use natural language to get it.
Ala Star Trek

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