Talking for computers

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So while I believe that search is far from perfect today I didn’t necessarily think that the solution was to create a better way for computers to understand what we meant. Frankly, I assumed that we’d continue to do a better job of talking in a way that computers understood, and advances would come in other areas (deep web, better algorithms, rich media search, etc.).