She paid with a card, querying something on her bill.
We were building sandcastles and Zoe was giving instructions, and I was probably querying something.
And it lists them based on relevancy to your query, something the underlying semantic technology learns as more users search and tap on the app results.
As the company told us in February, the hard part about pre-processing is being able to predict what customers are going to query on, which is something Amplitude claims to have figured out, along with other tricks in saving space, and computation in memory, in order to deliver its service cheaply.
"To query that, to get underneath it.
If she needed something from it she'd use a verbal query, something like "Jack (my dad), will you look up Oprah Winfrey's tv schedule for me?" Or whatever.
To the right of the main result set are blog (as opposed to post) links that are relevant to the query, and something they call the "Daily Sphere", which is links to relevant non-blog news stories.
We compulsively check our email in part because we don't know whether the next message will be for leisure/amusement, an overdue bill, a "to do", a query… something you can do now, later, something life-changing, something irrelevant.
Google has long claimed that it uses a neutral algorithm for search queries, something that competitors disputed.
