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Applications
One potential application of conversation theory that has been studied has been as an alternative approuch to search engine interactions. Instead of organizing webpage results based on how many hyperlinks there are of a given webpage which may not nessisarily allign with a users intentions or goals, the interface of a search engine can be made in such a way to facilite a more collabritive interaction resembling a interaction that may occur between conversing participents during a learning process.

One proposed way of doing this is to order the topics or terms that are input into search requests in relation to other terms or topics for which the meaning of the former term is derived. For example, given the input of a search term, a neighberhood of others terms that comprise the meaning of the first term may be suggested for the user to explore. The search engine interface then highlights snippets of web searches corrsponding to that neiberhood of other terms in relation to the first.