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It’s not just Google. The idea of a search engine leading to web pages with useful information itself has existed long enough to be gamed to the bottom. A new p
by ramraj07 3y ago
It’s not just Google. The idea of a search engine leading to web pages with useful information itself has existed long enough to be gamed to the bottom. A new paradigm has to emerge and take over. The LLMs seem like the first real viable alternative but I feel like we are still in the lycos days of this paradigm.
- Jensson 3y agoHow do I publish data to an LLM? I don't see how it solves the issues the open web solved, so it doesn't seem like a good replacement to a search engine.
- ramraj07 3y agoAs I said we are still in the Lycos era of this paradigm. But I’m not sure what you mean, the LLM is the index of the entire internet, so not sure why it’s hard to imagine it becoming a much smarter answering machine (answers being either the actual answer or a link to a website that’s actually useful).
- brucethemoose2 3y ago> LLM is the index of the entire internet It is certainly not an index of the entire internet. Web scraping is a tool to make LLMs "smarter" and better at speaking, but they are not a web archive, not even a reasonably lossy one. Honestly they are a poor substitute for Google, even when augmented with a vectorDB or (hypothetically) some kind of confidence metric, when the information is not immediately verifiable.