The company continues to shed light on the nuts and bolts of the improvements --and today's post centers on the upgrades to user abbreviations (entering 'Nw' for
Northwestern university, for example) and the handling of "stop words" (or articles like "a," "the," or "and").
Microsoft is banking on a better understanding of whether users mean "bio" for biography or biology (or "The Office," as opposed to "supplies for the office") - to help increase search volume and eyeballs for search marketers. According to the Live Search team, this means moving closer to the user mantra: "Do what I mean, not what I say!"