Names Search Analyzer
Trivial as it seems to look for some information about a person by entering his or her name, it often proves tricky: instead of finding the person needed, we stumble upon his famous namesakes.
One of the most persistent search engine mistakes is to make a mixture of names and surnames (like splitting 'Richard Shakespeare' into 'Richard III' and 'William Shakespeare'), so the queries in the analyzer were chosen with a view to making such results more probable. We only used the names of some real people we found on the web, but their surnames either coincided with those of some hot media personalities, or were in some other ways non-standard and difficult for a search engine to find.
The analyzer automatically divides the names it finds in the snippets and titles of the first output page into hits and misses, according to whether the right person was found. Then we perform a manual check. It is necessary for disentangling several complicated situations, like for instance, when the name and the surname are glued together at random (which would look strange in English, but can easily happen in Russian with its freer word-order). The results with name initials are also checked 'manually', so that the context might help to decide upon the approrpiate answer.
The resulting number constitutes the average ratio of correctly found pages to the overall number of pages.
 90−100%- 80−90%
- 60−80%
- 40−60%
- 20−40%
- 0−20%
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