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Quotes versus non quotes in bing

in bing.com :

java jobs -> 57,000,000 hits ("http://www.bing.com/search?q=java+jobs&go=&form=QBRE&scope=web&qs=n")

"java jobs" -> 234,000,000 hits (http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22java+jobs%22&go=&form=QBRE&scope=web&qs=n)

How comes?

You can migrate this question if it is necessary, but for me this was program related, since I was writing a program that uses bing results and it's about an alghoritm.. (but I am in great doubt right know..)

UPDATE : I now also see the results are constantly changing... Is Bing not reliable as statistical source?

UPDATE 2 : any ideas : continued on http://superuser.com/questions/75384/quotes-versus-non-quotes-in-bing

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I don't think it is programming related. superUser.com would be more appropriate. – Mark Byers Nov 25 '09 at 21:00
google does the same thing – cottsak Nov 25 '09 at 21:01
bing programming in nutshell =) – Trickster Nov 25 '09 at 21:03
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No, with google the non quote version yields much more, which is logical – Peter Nov 25 '09 at 21:03
I aggree with that comment, you would think that uncommented would yield more than commented... – astander Nov 25 '09 at 21:04
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Most likely "Java Jobs" just searches for pages containing that quoted text and you get a lot of results.

Java+Jobs probably has some sort of logic to it that only returns pages that would be related to Java Jobs, probably all containing the two words but probably pages that would also only have words like "Career, programming...." in them.

mroe info here http://videos.webpronews.com/2009/09/03/bings-semantic-approach-to-search/

more of a semantic search.

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You have a source for that? The usability of that would be very very poor, since all users that are a bit used to the internet conventions would expect otherwise – Peter Nov 25 '09 at 21:13
@John with source I don't mean the source of semantic search but rather the source of bing alghoritms explained (and why would they use that) – Peter Nov 25 '09 at 21:18
I dont have that information, but that's the only reason i can think of for this happening. Any other possible reasons you can think of? – John Boker Nov 25 '09 at 21:24
from online-tech-tips.com/industry-news/bing-search-engine-microsoft : First thing to note is that Bing is not going to give you results for normal search queries like Google. So what is Bing do that will make you want to use it? Bing’s main advancement is in semantic search. For example, if you search for an xBox game, not only will you get a list of normal blue link results, but you’ll also get a list of related searches, which includes things like walkthroughs, news, errors, etc. – John Boker Nov 25 '09 at 21:26
Hey man, I'm not to sure yet, but seen all the trouble you went through to help me out +1 :-) – Peter Nov 25 '09 at 21:32
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