Bill Slawski has found a Google patent describing three separate searches for one keyword phrase. The technology breaks up the phrase into several sets of queries without the searcher realizing it. He
describes it as a search within a search. The patent, called "Multiple related searches," makes Slawski ponder whether it would have an influence on long-tail queries and sites that attempt to
optimize for them. Leaving out one word from a search consisting of four words would throw off optimization for that phrase.
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