Glossary · Answer engines and retrieval

Passage ranking

Scoring individual text segments rather than whole pages. It is why one clearly written paragraph can be cited from a page that is otherwise thin, and why page-level authority metrics predict citation poorly.

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citation

Answer engines and retrieval

How a generated answer gets made, and what your page is competing for inside it.

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