Category: docs

Daniel Griffin

A short post linking to a Twitter post proposing a speculative 'plagiarism index' as a classroom exercise.

Daniel Griffin

Documentation about Tavily, a web search and generative search API integrated into LangChain's opengpts, with links to website, playground, API docs, and usage examples.

Daniel Griffin

Early draft exploring sources of search failures and related research on algorithms of oppression, search quality complaints, and sociotechnical imaginaries around Google Search.

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Loose notes on Google's search result warnings for unreliable or rapidly evolving topics, with Vox and Verge reporting on the feature's 2021 rollout.

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Early draft covering data voids and research on how search engine reliance on source popularity can surface extreme-right content for migration-related queries in Germany and Sweden.

Daniel Griffin

Early draft on search directives, exploring how posts suggest specific Google search terms to co-opt Google's perceived impartiality.

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Draft covering trending searches via Google Trends, with research by Gillespie on algorithms becoming culture and critical perspectives on using Google Trends data.

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Google sometimes displays a text books to

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Brief draft about null results (searches with no results) and their relation to data voids, with a link to how the site's search handles them.

Daniel Griffin

Comprehensive draft on Google autocomplete's benefits, harms (amplifying social bias, gaming), and warnings about misconceptions like autocompletions not representing most popular searches.

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Documentation of the LangChain Hub as a searchable repository of prompts for LLM developers, with investigation into when search functionality was added.

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Technical documentation of website bugs including pagination issues with sort:date searches and incorrect back-to labels for pposts.

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A doc listing feedback on complaints re search user interfaces (SUI).

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What is retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)?

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Curated list of LLM tools and frameworks including ChainForge, Comet, LangChain, and ragas for prompt engineering, evaluation, and RAG pipeline development.

Daniel Griffin

[Logan Kilpatrick just announced search in OpenAI's developer docs](https://twitter.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1686788266886942720) so I glanced at it and saw the hint to jump to the search bar (their DocSearch Button Keys ): ⌘ & K . I appreciate such [micro interactions in search](/search/?q=tags…

Daniel Griffin

This is an incomplete listing of a few academic search tools. See also: my paper w/ [Jake Goldenfein](https://twitter.com/jakusg) ([Google Scholar – Platforming the scholarly economy (goldenfein2022platforming)](/shortcuts/goldenfein2022platforming)) my [scholar profiles (page)](/scholar profiles…

Daniel Griffin

This is a doc about generative search (and search like) tool support for sharing responses/results through a 'sharing interface'. My attention to support for sharing results of searches, or documenting that a search has been performed, is partially due to (1) lessons re sharing and repairing sear…

Daniel Griffin

This is an incomplete doc about browser site search shortcuts. You can modify your web browser so that after jumping to your address bar / 'omnibox' ( Cmd+L ) you can type a shortcut to search via a particular search tool. To add a search tool in your browser, you need a name for the tool, a shor…

Daniel Griffin

This is an incomplete doc about search query length limits. From Perplexity AI's marketing email today: Longer Input Limits Did you know Perplexity can write code, essays, and summarize articles? To help, input limits have been increased to 2000 tokens (roughly 1500 words). Entirely apart from th…

Daniel Griffin

This is an incomplete doc about search audits, or search engine audits. This is overly self referential at this time. Search audits, as a form of "algorithm audit", are systematic approaches to evaluating the performance of a search tool through documenting interacting with the tool in various wa…