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Is it only a single site? I've played around with Phind long enough to come to the conclusion that even ignoring security issues, search result insertion is kin
by danShumway 3y ago
Is it only a single site? I've played around with Phind long enough to come to the conclusion that even ignoring security issues, search result insertion is kind of suboptimal for a lot of tasks that need current information. And Phind does seem to benefit from at least inserting multiple sites, going with only one result seems like it would be a lot worse. My experience has been that having the up-to-date info so close to the prompt seems to heavily bias Phind towards parroting webpages and including web pages in its answers rather than offering insight, and while there are ways to prompt around that they're annoying and fragile.
I'm sure some people have different experiences; I'm less trying to argue the point and more asking "is this tangibly and clearly better than Phind to the point where it's worth me jumping through the hoops to try it out and reevaluate? Or are my impressions of GPT's direct offering largely going to match my impressions of Phind?"
Is it doing anything different or more impressive than inserting a scraped web-page into the prompt? Because I feel like I already have a decent idea of how GPT will tend to react to that and how it will influence the output.