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[the film where no new babies are born] → [no babies movie]. The rest of the query is superfluous or implied.

http://google.com/#q=no%20babies%20movie finds it.

"no babies" does not appear on the IMDb page itself, but I expect it appears near many links to the IMDb page.

Edit: rewriting queries is a necessary step to do question-answering with a search engine. Query rewriting + some sort of knowledge graph is a large part of the Watson recipe; the graph is comparatively sparse but simplified queries can be entry points into that graph.



Google does a stellar job correlating click through and click back actions + times to determine what people were most likely looking for with each query, and then raising or lowering results accordingly (Panda amplified this metric in their scoring system). I suspect they stomp Bing in that department.


Bing too shows results based on user interactions (collected via a toolbar or via IE's "suggested sites" feature):

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/02/google-results-one-...




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