| ▲ | OhMeadhbh 7 hours ago |
| These people really mis-understand how people like me use search. I don't want "an experience," I want a list of documents that match the search specifier. |
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| ▲ | gus_massa 17 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| I agree, I agree, I search in Google, but Gemini is quite good and most of the times the answer is correct or close enough to save a lot of my time. |
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| ▲ | softwaredoug 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Author here, well specifically I'm using "experiences" to mean basically ranking / finding relevant results. |
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| ▲ | soco 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Wouldn't the "dumb API search" be already enough for users? I'm not sure my decades experience as Google search user has improved once they leaned heavy on the ranking and adding "relevant" things... | | |
| ▲ | janalsncm 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | > once they leaned heavy on the ranking Not sure what you mean here. Google started with PageRank which is a decent, albeit gamable, ranking algorithm. They’ve never not been leaning heavy on ranking. Mid 2010s, Google began supporting conversational (non keyword) searches. This is because a good number of queries are difficult to reduce to keywords. But it is an inherently harder problem. And at the same time, the open web enahittified itself, filling up with SEOed blogspam. And a lot of user generated content moved into walled gardens. |
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| ▲ | nottorp 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Well, at least you didn't use 'engagement'. Edit: oops, you used it in another comment on here. |
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| ▲ | awlejrlakwejr 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Absolutely. We need separate interfaces for work and play. |
