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Quest is in the Name

Alexis Sanders
Technical SEO
SearchLove San Diego 2019

Question answering systems (QAS) involve machines directly answering a user's question. They are quickly becoming a new model for search engines as technology enables higher precision answers. This talk covers QAS basics, research from Google from over the past year, and covers what we can do as search professionals for our site's strategic direction.

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