Re:Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
by marginalia_nu on Monday January 01, 2024 @08:18AM
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It's tricky though. I think a lot of people think they want raw keyword search, but what they really want is a search experience that makes intuitive sense.
If you lean too much into embeddings and so on, it's easy to get errors that don't make sense to a human being. It's extremely frustrating when you experience "I typed X, why am I getting results about Y?!"
That said, I think there's a sweet spot with some magic, where it genuinely just makes search better. But it's like perfume, if it's immediately obvious that it's there, it's probably a fair bit too much.
If you lean too much into embeddings and so on, it's easy to get errors that don't make sense to a human being. It's extremely frustrating when you experience "I typed X, why am I getting results about Y?!"
That said, I think there's a sweet spot with some magic, where it genuinely just makes search better. But it's like perfume, if it's immediately obvious that it's there, it's probably a fair bit too much.