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Initial feedback: 1) Simplify the UI. Center the typing area and make it auto selected so I can type without having to click on it. 2) There is too much text.

Initial feedback: 1) Simplify the UI. Center the typing area and make it auto selected so I can type without having to click on it. 2) There is too much text. Just let me type without reading. 3) It seems like it requires full length questions to get good results. Focus on getting the same results with just a few words by inferring the question.

jedwhite 5y ago
Thank you for the helpful feedback and suggestions on the UI. That's something we're working to improve. Quick question: had you used Andi before? We actually cut all the intro text completely before the post yesterday. So I'm thinking you might have seen it beforehand. The progressive web app (PWA) updates in the background, so after reloading the page, you don't see the changes until the next time you quit and restart your browser (much like Chrome itself). So I'm guessing you might have visited earlier :) If so, that means you will still be accessing the old back-end without the new Q&A features. So if that is the case, please reload the page, and then try it out again after the next time you restart your browser. With the questions, shorter questions should work well for traditional-style web search results. But for the complex questions, having specific information and enough detail make a huge difference on the quality of the answers. With semantic searching, even if the top results are a good match, unless the system has enough signals to have high confidence in the factual accuracy of the answer, it will display a snippet or web results instead. So better and more specific questions definitely help it to produce higher quality answers. We're working on adding heuristics and context to help so you can ask shorter questions, but a lot of work still to do to make that work well and we don't include that yet. Thank you again. We're grateful for the feedback and for you trying it out.

jedwhite 5y ago

Thank you for the helpful feedback and suggestions on the UI. That's something we're working to improve. Quick question: had you used Andi before? We actually cut all the intro text completely before the post yesterday. So I'm thinking you might have seen it beforehand. The progressive web app (PWA) updates in the background, so after reloading the page, you don't see the changes until the next time you quit and restart your browser (much like Chrome itself). So I'm guessing you might have visited earlier :) If so, that means you will still be accessing the old back-end without the new Q&A features. So if that is the case, please reload the page, and then try it out again after the next time you restart your browser. With the questions, shorter questions should work well for traditional-style web search results. But for the complex questions, having specific information and enough detail make a huge difference on the quality of the answers. With semantic searching, even if the top results are a good match, unless the system has enough signals to have high confidence in the factual accuracy of the answer, it will display a snippet or web results instead. So better and more specific questions definitely help it to produce higher quality answers. We're working on adding heuristics and context to help so you can ask shorter questions, but a lot of work still to do to make that work well and we don't include that yet. Thank you again. We're grateful for the feedback and for you trying it out.