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Maybe. They can hold batches and smuggle them in various ways.
If they have an auto-complete feature, the keypresses WILL be seen in not even in a smuggled way. They'll be directly in the URL to the search function!
> “Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. For example, in our prototype search engine one of the top results for cellular phone is “The Effect of Cellular Phone Use Upon Driver Attention”, a study which explains in great detail the distractions and risk associated with conversing on a cell phone while driving. This search result came up first because of its high importance as judged by the PageRank algorithm, an approximation of citation importance on the web [Page, 98].
A search for cellular phone now returns a page of links to plans, and one link to Wikipedia.
> it costs us about $1 to process 80 searches.[0] I am genuinely curious how did Kagi arrive at this cost. [0]: https://kagi.com/pricing
If I were them I would be focusing on: How do we get to 8k searches for a dollar?
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How would you really blackbox a search ranking, though? A website owner can always just search for themselves, and see how their ranking changes. When there’s so much money at stake, people will go to great lengths to reverse-engineer the things that put them higher in the page, no matter how you try to hide the levers that make the rankings work.
Personalized results. If you Google yourself, you just see what you see. But you can never know what others will see.
That just turns it into a statistical problem.
I don't think you can escape the problem of a search engine being used as an oracle.
> it costs us about $1 to process 80 searches.[0] I am genuinely curious how did Kagi arrive at this cost. [0]: https://kagi.com/pricing
I've been using Kagi on and off for the last few months. I often forget about it since I can't set it as my default browser in Safari. But in general, especially when looking for specific phrases or trying to find discussions related to a topic, it's working extremely well. Whenever I used it, I was happy with it, and the search result quality was better than in Google. It's good to note though that iirc Kagi does ac…
They have a Safari extension. Have at it!
Otherwise I might have given it a shot.
Why does everything in the future-web have a price tag attached? If anything I want less business middlemen on the web period. I don't understand why funding through direct sales will give a better product than funding through advertising: "And yes, the non-zero price point will mean you have to budget it with your other costs. But faster access to higher quality information will make you much more competitive global…
Can the technology behind GPT-3 be used to find relevant articles given a query? E.g. instead of training it to generate sentences given a prompt, train it to generate URLs given a query (?)