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This would be fine if they did a good job of semantic search. But they aren't particularly good at that. It's jumping to conclusions, ignoring parts of the quer

This would be fine if they did a good job of semantic search. But they aren't particularly good at that. It's jumping to conclusions, ignoring parts of the query, etc. I find it infuriating when it just ignores part of the query so it can show you some stuff. If I type 3 words, there's a reason for it: they are all important to me. It's gotten very frustrating to use because it tends to drown out good results with generic results from sites doing SEO optimization. There are some tricks around this. E.g. prefix any query related to AWS apis with stackoverflow or include some package names, use some quotes, etc. If you don't do that, you just get a 100 "this is why we believe AWS is so awesome" marketing to filter through. There are ways to mitigate that but they are quite tedious. Bing on the other hand has rolled out gpt 4 based search. I've been using it and it's been pretty amazingly good taking over when Google fails me. Which it does frequently. I particularly like it that I can ask follow up questions. It mixes answering questions and backs up the answers with links. I've been relying on it quite a bit since I got access a week ago. Very annoying that they make you use Edge for that but worth the detour from Firefox when Google is obviously not up to the job. Google is rightly worried about this.

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akasakahakada 4y ago
But I guess BingGPT only look at the first 3 results and ignore the remainings. Speaking from my experience. It is kind of returning the same 3~4 results when I ask if there exist some paper about ML in the chemistry.
rolenthedeep 4y ago
I remember when we had explicit syntax for what MUST and MUST NOT be in the search results. Now the + and - tokens are just a mild suggestion. Wrapping a word or two in quotes sometimes helps, but more often than not just returns no results. It's funny, in middle school we had a whole unit on constructing search engine queries. It was really quite powerful back then. But I guess it's less profitable for you to actually find what you want without spending 20 minutes sifting through ads
nicbou 4y ago
It becomes particularly bad if you're looking for anything money can buy. Lightest laptop? Here's are 10 lists of laptops that exist in 2023, with zero effort put into distinguishing them. As if SEO spam wasn't bad enough on its own, Google started ignoring your query to serve more of it. Then there are specific queries that are reinterpreted as generic ones. You get 5 results or so, then it starts dropping keywords on a 2-3 keyword query. It's infuriating.

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akasakahakada 4y ago

But I guess BingGPT only look at the first 3 results and ignore the remainings. Speaking from my experience. It is kind of returning the same 3~4 results when I ask if there exist some paper about ML in the chemistry.

rolenthedeep 4y ago

I remember when we had explicit syntax for what MUST and MUST NOT be in the search results. Now the + and - tokens are just a mild suggestion. Wrapping a word or two in quotes sometimes helps, but more often than not just returns no results. It's funny, in middle school we had a whole unit on constructing search engine queries. It was really quite powerful back then. But I guess it's less profitable for you to actually find what you want without spending 20 minutes sifting through ads

nicbou 4y ago

It becomes particularly bad if you're looking for anything money can buy. Lightest laptop? Here's are 10 lists of laptops that exist in 2023, with zero effort put into distinguishing them. As if SEO spam wasn't bad enough on its own, Google started ignoring your query to serve more of it. Then there are specific queries that are reinterpreted as generic ones. You get 5 results or so, then it starts dropping keywords on a 2-3 keyword query. It's infuriating.