Searchplex ID Retrieval terminology registry

Task

Query Suggestion

Canonical ID https://id.searchplex.net/query-suggestion/

Generating and ranking related, alternative, or subsequent search queries intended to help a user continue, refine, or redirect a search.

Also called

  • Search Query Suggestion

Scope

Query suggestion may use query logs, session context, click behavior, current results, or user context. It is distinct from query autocomplete, which completes a partially typed prefix.

Observed terms

  • Recommended Searches industry

Part of

  • Query Understanding Often implemented as a query-assistance component near query understanding.

Not equivalent to

  • Query Suggestion is not Query Autocomplete. Query suggestion recommends related, next, or alternative queries; query autocomplete completes the query prefix being typed.
  • Query Suggestion is not Query Reformulation. Query reformulation is the act or process of changing a query; query suggestion is the system task of proposing candidate queries to the user.
  • Query Suggestion is not Search-as-You-Type. Query suggestion proposes related or alternative queries; search-as-you-type updates retrieved results during query entry.
  • Query Suggestion is not Spelling Correction. Spelling correction proposes corrected forms of the user's query; query suggestion recommends related, alternative, or subsequent queries.

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