deeperqa as a cook i often need to find recipes and their closely related variations in the same way a lawyer or doctor may need to find cases and their variations in the past i resolved this need by asking the computer questions by means of submitting keywords today the method i use is quite different today i find recipes and their variations by query not by my query of the computer but by the computer's query of me what makes this better is the time i save repeating keyword submissions to refine responses and find the answer i need what makes this possible is the computers ability to minimize the number of questions it must ask the technique is described here