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Re: Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

#91

Really novel idea but - I think there's a bug for the first example, when I land on the websets page, it searches "Engineers with startup experience based in california" but whats returned are a bunch of tennis websites

That was an unmaintained landing page with old iframes, thanks for catching that! Removed all links to it, and set it to redirect to the correct page at websets.exa.ai

Re: Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

#93

Very nice! Like a Databricks for Google, or perhaps think of it as Google backend as a service (at least their AI like backend not the main search) It disrupts anyone who merely does one thing this does. E.g. contact building app can be done by this. I imagine many "wrapper" apps can be built on this. I am serious though. It felt like using databricks a little bit, obviously without all the functionality but that wil…

Disagree. Sure, there are a few general companies that need “good enough” results, but whats more likely is they need extremely high quality results for their specific need/niche.

Re: Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

#96
This sounds promising.

I tried "Full-stack web frameworks started 2023 or later" and the first result was FastHTML which is a very good answer. I was hoping for Dioxus but that I think is actually a little bit older. Of course Google's results, including Gemini, were useless. MeteorJS was not started in 2023 or later. LOL.

Re: Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

#97
> The second is that LLMs provide the last-mile intelligence needed to verify every result. Each result and piece of data is backed with supporting references that we used to validate that the result is actually a match for your search criteria.

Evals on this would be great to benchmark the gap between using websets versus a generic web search tool. Otherwise to a developer, it's just marketing.

Re: Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

#98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Geospatial data would be great. This stuff is notoriously annoying to search for. For example: "Give me a list of free imagery service endpoints I can use in a maplibre style sheet. Include information such as name, description, service endpoint, service type, extent (global/regional)."

This might be possible if you specify geospatial location as an enriched column. The visualization of it as a map though is not supported in the UI, but can be built by giving an LLM access to the Websets API

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Re: Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

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post #97

> The second is that LLMs provide the last-mile intelligence needed to verify every result. Each result and piece of data is backed with supporting references that we used to validate that the result is actually a match for your search criteria. Evals on this would be great to benchmark the gap between using websets versus a generic web search tool. Otherwise to a developer, it's just marketing.

https://exa.ai/blog/websets-evals
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