OpenAI Announces SearchGPT

Post by bfelbo » Sat, Jul 27, 2024, 9:12 AM UTC

marcosdumay wrote: post #13

samiwami wrote: post #4

I wonder how good this will be. My employer gave us Perplexity Pro for free, and I removed Safari from my home screen and pinned Perplexity to force myself to use it… I found it really really slow and didn’t really add to my search experience

IMO, Perplexity does absolutely shine in a kind of search for what other engines don't compete at all. But it's way worse than normal engines for most of the things I search. Anyway, comparing it by speed isn't useful at all.

Post by Closi » Thu, Aug 01, 2024, 1:23 AM UTC

kypro wrote: post #124

skydhash wrote: post #14

Search engines for me is keyword based. I want to type "pizza near " or " " and get sensible result. Anytime a search engines tries to interpret my query with something far semantically and ignoring my own keywords, it's a worse experience.

I have no data to back this up, but I strongly suspect 90% of search traffic consists of dumb searches for things like, "facebook", "weather tomorrow", "gmail". While people do search for things that could benefit from some comprehension, I don't think that's a common feature. For example, my most recent searches and I'm probably a bit of an outlier given my usage: "given when then" "[some project] github" "[some per…