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Googler opinions are my own. (I know nothing about search). Google has LaMDA, which I could see them putting the answers from it into the knowledge box at the
by kyrra 4y ago
Googler opinions are my own. (I know nothing about search).
Google has LaMDA, which I could see them putting the answers from it into the knowledge box at the top of searches. There is no reason they have to be mutually exclusive, a search engine can provide answers from both. Google search is already an aggregation of multiple sources (images, web index, knowledge, shopping, video, flights, etc...). Adding another source seems like the obvious path forward (assuming accuracy and cost make sense).
- WheelsAtLarge 4y agoVery true, they already have different sections in the results pages. There's no reason why they can't have one more. They can also use the box as a way to improve accuracy by having user vote on the quality of the result.
- waynesonfire 4y ago[flagged]
- dang 4y agoWe really need you to stop posting so aggressively. If you can't or won't, we're going to have to ban you. You've been breaking the site guidelines frequently. That's not ok, and I warned you about this once recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33860364 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33860364. I don't want to ban you because you've also posted good things and if you'd simply follow the site guidelines you'd be a good contributor, but the current pattern is a problem. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fixing this, we'd be grateful.
- waynesonfire 4y agoThanks will do
- antihipocrat 4y agoIf we don't need to click a link does google receives less revenue? I think including more direct answers from a search query would require changes to Google's business model.
- aflag 4y agoThe ads would still be clickable. Clicking the actual results doesn't really help google much.
- antihipocrat 4y agoExcept for any ads embedded in the referred sites.