Glossary · Answer engines and retrieval
information gain
A ranking concept with a Google patent lineage: a document is scored for what it adds beyond the documents the user, or the retrieval set, has already seen. It explains a pattern visible from outside, that a page restating the consensus answer loses to a page contributing a figure, a method, or a dated observation nobody else has. The score itself is not observable from outside an engine, so it is a working explanation, not a measurement, and this scanner does not claim to compute it.
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Answer engines and retrieval
How a generated answer gets made, and what your page is competing for inside it.
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