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> Remember: In the first 20 years of Google existence (or in any 20 years of the semiconductor age until recently) Moores law had over 13 cycles. A lot of what
by jraph 4y ago
> Remember: In the first 20 years of Google existence (or in any 20 years of the semiconductor age until recently) Moores law had over 13 cycles. A lot of what used to be hard problems before isn't anynore.
The web also grow tremendously, and probably user expectations too (in the beginning of the century we were told in school not to speak to search engine like we would to a human, but with keywords and operators). We also do and search for many more kinds of things
- eitland 4y agoIf anything my expectations sunk massively between 2009 and the introduction of Kagi. To be blunt: for me, mainstream search engines Google and Bing very much feel like the things they replaced, Altavista and Yahoo, just with some fancy bolt ons like maps etc. I understand some people like to be able to write sentences to their search engines, but as long as the results have worse quality than they had 15 - 20 years ago, that "understanding" is just another fancy bolt on feature. The only things that exist today that could threaten Google quality is Kagi which has gone all in on quality and ChatGPT (and other similar solutions) which finally have produced a working "answer machine" instead of breaking perfect or at least working search engines.
- senko 4y agoThis will probably be of interest: https://labs.kagi.com/fastgpt https://labs.kagi.com/fastgpt
- eitland 4y agoYou were correct! It is really impressive and up to date. It feels a little less precise than ChatGPT but given the fact that it is up to date means it is a tradeoff I guess I will often want to take.