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Semantic Search: How semantics control search engine searches By Aditya Abeysinghe Search engines are now a part of every internet user’s flow of activities. Users search data using queries and the output is categorized into several categories like websites, videos, news etc. Most search queries typically do not provide information on which data to be shown back. Therefore, a search of related data is often required to show relevant data to the user. Search of relevant data for a query is done by matching semantics to words on a user query. History of search Searching on keywords of a query entered by a user was the first method that was used by search engines. In this method, whenever a user submits a query, the entire query was used as the search engine’s input to search for content. Caveats of this technique were the low-quality content displayed as the content with ...