Analyzer of Ambiguous Queries
When Russian users search for «белки» do they mean the furry animals or the proteins? There is about a dozen universities which can be referred to as "КГУ", so is the user entering this query looking for Kazan State, Kursk State or any other educational institution which happens to have the same abbreviated name?
In the case of an ambiguous query, the user could have had in mind any of the "readings". Therefore, instead of showing the results based on the most frequent interpretation, it seems to be the best bet for a search engine to include the results corresponding to all the different readings. This way the users may at least realize that their query is ambiguous which in turn will help them to make the query more precise.
This analyzer estimates the percentage of possible interpretations of the ambiguous queries which are reflected in the search engines' results.
Most of the marker queries contain just one word, and the possible interpretations usually do not include the numerous businesses bearing the name which equals our query. We only included the very famous companies, to which a user could potentially refer with a one-word query.
 90−100%- 80−90%
- 60−80%
- 40−60%
- 20−40%
- 0−20%
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