Company Valve continues to present various experiments within the laboratory Steam. This time, the developers talked about Query Expansionby which they improve Steam search, considering not only the game’s tags, but also what they logically mean.
In the example, the developers mention the search for 3D platformers using two tags: 3D and Platformer or single label 3D platformer, which will produce more results, but will miss some games from the first request.
This is due to the fact that in the current version of the search, tags are not related to each other. A new smart search is designed to correct these shortcomings.
At the same time, Valve notes that she did not make far-reaching assumptions and assumed that simply similar or logically related labels are synonyms.
Gloomy does not imply a label Lovecraft, Fantasy does not imply a label “Magic”, “Shooter” does not imply “Action“, “Strategy” does not imply a label Step by Step.
Of course tags Gloomy and Lovecraft often associated with the same game, but this relationship does not mean they are equal, so query expansion should not bind these tags to each other, “the message said.
For more information about working with advanced search queries, see submitted material at the Steam News Center.
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