Tagged “search”

Add &udm=14 to querystring

LLM-powered search. Interesting idea, have not tested much to see if it actually works.

interesting comments from some Alphabet employees - that cost of LLMs needs to come down by 10x-100x to be viable.

On optimizing for ranking causing an overall decline in information.

Cool having googlers just pop in to the comments to explain/counter people's observations. Most of my useful google search tricks were from some article I read a decade or more ago with some inurl: and file format tricks

Couple of test searches gave lots from early 2000s. Will be interesting to see how bitrotten it is

Too much trash and sponsored noisy content

Comments have some good background on google image search, the cached/full-size images thing, Bing image search, and other things.

Started off sounding so ambitious and friendly; the goals and incentives probably shifted fairly early.

They never delivered on this "strong goal" to make web search an academic endeavour.

Paper from 1989(!) looking at different methods people use to find information. There are six main categories, most online search continues to only use one or two