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I bet GPT-3 let loose to crawl the web could whip up something like the original Yahoo hierarchal, curated directory structure pretty quickly. It wouldn't be as
by noduerme 4y ago
I bet GPT-3 let loose to crawl the web could whip up something like the original Yahoo hierarchal, curated directory structure pretty quickly. It wouldn't be as good as employing dozens of people to actually read and rank websites, but it would be a start.
Browsing through directory trees is complimentary to search, and has its own power for surfacing unexpected connections, i.e. information you didn't necessarily know you were looking for. I would love to see something well maintained like that again.
- kube-system 4y agoIt would certainly be better than the status quo of site ranking. Asking ChatGPT for websites about a topic does a fairly decent job, it seems. At least, it doesn't give me any spam.
- flandish 4y agoYet. Give it time and when asked “find me the owners manual for a 2004 jeep wrangler” it will list a few sites, probably one with the pdf in there, and then a few “need a new used car?” links too…
- noduerme 4y agoHah. So true. And it'll direct you to a used car site where all the marketing content was written by... ChatGPT. Then again, replacing used car dealers with Terminators could be an improvement.