The roll out of the synonym system, yesterday, is already proving beneficial.

Before we didn’t have a synonym for surgery, so we will now add surgical!

  • surgery – 578,100 results
  • surgical – 407,425 results
  • surgical OR surgery – 779,828 results

It does raise interesting questions about how strict we make the synonyms. One could argue that surgery and surgical are not strict synonyms as they can be used slightly differently. But the overlap seems large enough to warrant it!

UPDATE: And another:

  • UTI – 7,314 results
  • urinary tract infection – 22,470 results
  • urinary tract infection OR uti – 22,608 results

UPDATE 2:

  • osteopathy – 628 results
  • osteopathic – 2,639 results
  • osteopathic OR osteopathy – 3,010 results