Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI”

Re:Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI” by jjoonathan on Friday May 05, 2023 @09:29AM (#35828965)

Good local search gets you 80% of the way there. 20 years ago, this was an inspiring UX trend (Quicksilver / Subject Verb Object), but it fizzled. Apple kept the torch lit with menu search and it has been brilliant, but limited to their platform, although I am pleased to see that MS Office got menu search in Oct 2022.

LLMs could certainly help loosen the input requirements, not to mention aim some sorely needed hype back in this direction. I am afraid that they will murder the latency and compute requirements, but hey, progress is always two steps forward one step back.

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Re:Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI” by wing-_-nuts on Friday May 05, 2023 @11:40AM (#35830698)

I was never terribly impressed with local search on os x but maybe I didn't use it enough.

For a while, ubuntu had a local search where you could hit a button (super?) start typing, and it would drill through menus at lightning speed

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