Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Claude can now search the web

anthropic.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

751–758 of 758 posts

Re: Claude can now search the web

#751

Post by wraptile »

moooo99 wrote: post #508
wraptile wrote: post #470

Earlier quoted context omitted.

big doubt on that and maybe that's a good thing? Let's be honest, right now most of the web is dominated by low effort spam. Taking money away from view farming would dramatically increase the web quality of the web. Suddently that guy who's really into "key gardening" doing research and publishing detailed results on his website actually has viewers — isn't this good? Especially since website hosting is close to bei…

> big doubt on that and maybe that's a good thing? Let's be honest, right now most of the web is dominated by low effort spam. I think that is funny considering it is likely going to have the exact opposite effect. Low effort blog spam is cheap to make. And it is often part of content marketing strategies where brand visibility is all that matters, so not much harm if the viability is directly on your site or in an A…

Still unconvinced. You really don't need anything beyond a static site to effectively share information.

Another point you're missing is that there's a 3rd group of people sharing content: experts who are there to establish their expertise. Small companies and individuals generate the highest quality content these days. I work on a blog for our SAAS company and it has been a great success in terms of organic growth (even people coming from LLMs) and to simply establish authority and signal expertise in the field. I can imagine a future where this is majority of expert content on the web and it seems quite sustainable imo.

Re: Claude can now search the web

#752

Post by taskforcegemini »

internetter wrote: post #62
_2d30 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think it should. If a user asks the AI to read the web for them, it should read the web for them. This isn't a vacuum charged with crawling the web, it's an adhoc GET request.

You could make this justification for a lot of unapproved bot activity.

you could, but this article is about claude.

Re: Claude can now search the web

#753

Post by orangesun »

sumeno wrote: post #682
exhaze wrote: post #671

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Install MCP plugin and call a search engine of your choice. If you’re unhappy about something, try to first think of a solution before expressing your discontent.

Wow, so condescending I don't use the desktop app and I don't want to use the desktop app or jump through a bunch of hoops to support basic functionality without having my data sent to a sketchy company.

There's always the option of not using it.

Re: Claude can now search the web

#755

Post by ChrisRR »

Almondsetat wrote: post #111
tcdent wrote: post #102

Searching the web is a great feature in theory, but every implementation I've used so far looks at the top X hits and then interprets it to be the correct answer. When you're talking to an LLM about popular topics or common errors, the top results are often just blogspam or unresolved forum posts, so the you never get an answer to your problem. More of an indicator that web search is more unusable than ever, but inte…

>looks at the top X hits and then interprets it to be the correct answer. LLMs are truly reaching human-like behavior then

Bold of you to assume that most people even bother googling simple questions

Re: Claude can now search the web

#756

Post by rhubarbtree »

Cort3z wrote: post #560

I usually find Claude to be my favourite flavor of LLMs, but I still pay for ChatGPT because their voice offering is so great! I regularly use it as an "expert on the side" when I do other things, like doing bike repairs. I ask it things like "how do I find the min/max adjustments on my particular flavor of front derailleur", or when cooking, and my hands are dirty, I can ask stuff like "how much X do I usually need…

I think voice interface is the real killer app of LLMs. And the advance voice mode was exactly what I was waiting for. The pause between words issue is still a problem though, I think being able to just hit enter when done would work best.

Pro tip; if you’re preparing for a big meeting eg an interview, tell ChatGPT to play the part of an evil interviewer. Give it your CV and the job description etc. ask it to find the hardest questions it can. Ask it to coach you and review your answers afterwards, give ideal answers etc

after a couple of hours grilling the real interview will seem like a doddle.

Re: Claude can now search the web

#757

Post by computerthings »

sshine wrote: post #734
jascha_eng wrote: post #674

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Prefacing my comment with my nationality wasn't meant to give me authority over judging the situation, but about giving context on my point of view. Also you didn't read my comment correctly the whole point is that you don't have to assume he's a Nazi to condemn a Nazi-like salute.

It makes sense for Germans to react negatively to the salute regardless of its intent. It is, after all, banned in Germany.

[dead]

Re: Claude can now search the web

#758

Post by douglee650 »

simonw wrote: post #165
douglee650 wrote: post #155

You know what Claude can't do? Successfully vibe me a solution to: """ i need a bashrc command that will map the alias "logg" to open macvim to the file at ~/log.txt, then execute the macro defined by " z" """ Note z ends with user in insert mode, Claude provides solution below but puts me in edit mode. (I still have to press "i") alias loggg='mvim ~/log.txt -c "normal \ z"'

I don't find that prompt to be particularly clear.

I guess I am expecting too much. But dang, comment reply from simonw!
Post reply on HN