If I started a new question with the title "Pronunciation of 'cat'" the related question helper finds bunches of questions starting with "pronunciation of". This seems to happen with many of the common question forms:
- What is the meaning of "cat"?
- What is the difference between "cat" and "dog"?
- What is the origin of "raining cats and dogs"?
- Where did the phrase "raining cats and dogs" come from?
Etc. Related questions to these are more likely to matter if the part in quotes were given extreme priority. As in, the phrase "pronunciation of" is going to be mostly insignificant. Is there a way to lower the relevance of certain words in the search algorithm?
For the record, here are the related questions found for Pronunciation of "cat" (in order returned):
- Calling up a cat
- Pronunciation of “of”
- Pronunciation of “especially”
- Pronunciation of comparable
- Pronunciation of “hypokeimenon”
- Pronunciation of Paraguay
- Pronunciation of “Wiki”
- Pronunciation of “Pizza”
- Pronunciation of “jsfiddle”
- Pronunciation of “applicable”
- Pronunciation of “spring”
- the pronunciation of 'occult'
- Pronunciation of “r”
- What is the pronunciation of “the?”
- Pronunciation of “often”
- Pronunciation of “theodicy”
- Pronunciation of “Blessed”
- “Lieutenant” pronunciation
- Is there a difference between the pronunciation of a teenager, and the pronunciation of an adult?
- Are there different types of Pronunciation Guides?
- Expansion and pronunciation of “Mrs”
- Pronunciation of the word “laboratory”
- Foreigner's English pronunciation [closed]
- Pronunciation of “Short-lived”
- Who is in charge of determining a pronunciation?
Granted, we probably don't have many questions about "cat" in the system but the pattern seems to hold with other questions of this form. In my opinion, these results just aren't that useful. Can we do better?
