Category: pposts
December 1, 2023
- speedserper
Daniel Griffin
“It’s a clean and efficient way to search, get what you need, and get on with your day.”
November 30, 2023
November 29, 2023
- Similaring: Monitoring and Logging similar searches with the Metaphor API
Daniel Griffin
Sharing a script and search results for some find_similar searches on Metaphor.
November 17, 2023
- How to share TIL or short-comment-type searches?
Daniel Griffin
Reflection on wanting to share recent searches, considering building a new post category and browser export system for search queries.
November 17, 2023
- [dbw0340tokfkds;a]
Daniel Griffin
Fact-checks a Reddit claim about unique Google searches by analyzing the random query 'dbw0340tokfkds;a' through Google Trends data.
November 10, 2023
- True, False, or Useful: '15% of all Google searches have never been searched before.'
Daniel Griffin
Critiques the '15% of Google searches are new' statistic, examining how Google frames it to suggest impressive capabilities without providing meaningful context.
November 9, 2023
November 9, 2023
- “Few consumers would find alternative sources a suitable substitute for general search services.”
Daniel Griffin
Have, could, would, should?
November 6, 2023
- [How do you teach your toddler that “bad guys” is a category error?]
Daniel Griffin
A discussion of mismatch in the search experience (between query, presented search results, and content) and missing contextually-relevant explanations.
November 3, 2023
- Aggressively Imagining Funding Models for Generative Web Search
Daniel Griffin
I argue that we should use this opportunistic to rethink what search could be.
November 1, 2023
- “increase your searchability”
Daniel Griffin
A note on non-digital searchability, search & rescue, and search engine optimization.
October 31, 2023
- qChecker - a script to check for quotes in a source document
Daniel Griffin
Towards minimizing harm from “hallucinations” and other baloney.
October 25, 2023
- So does Google have an Official search API?
Daniel Griffin
Can the Programmable Search Engine's Custom Search JSON API be said to be an official web search API?
October 19, 2023
- “Bard may display inaccurate or offensive information”
Daniel Griffin
How might Google support users to calibrate trust within the tool itself?
October 12, 2023
- On heartfelt discursive uses of Google autocomplete
Daniel Griffin
See [flights to israel] and [why does the us support israel]
October 10, 2023
- What do you call it when links are not selectable?
Daniel Griffin
Exploring Google Bard's non-selectable 'Search related topics' links and whether this UX limitation constitutes hostile design.
October 9, 2023
- Bard on the Cat Brains planted query
Daniel Griffin
Shares response from Bard and brief additional comments re running Will Knight's "hallucination test".
October 9, 2023
- How do different generative search tools deal with links as the query?
Daniel Griffin
Bing Chat, Perplexity AI, and Phind retrieve and summarize.
October 5, 2023
- Searching masked or "voldemorted" URLs
Daniel Griffin
How well do search engines deal with masked URLs?
October 4, 2023
- [Please double check this statement: "You can improve your SEO by simply adding "reddit" onto the end of all of your website page titles.]
Daniel Griffin
Testing and comparing the fact-checking capabilities of various generative search systems (Andi, Metaphor, Perplexity, Phind, You.com) on a false SEO claim.
October 2, 2023
- [Summarize Will Knight's article "Google's Secret AI Project That Uses Cat Brains"]
Daniel Griffin
Sharing an example hallucination test.
September 30, 2023
September 6, 2023
- The Need for ChainForge-like Tools in Evaluating Generative Web Search Platforms
Daniel Griffin
A provocation.
August 31, 2023
August 31, 2023
- public health inspection signs as potential search seeds
Daniel Griffin
Could take a photo of a sign and be led directly to the inspection report?
August 29, 2023
- Google's core updates as chaos?
Daniel Griffin
Reflection on viewing Google's core algorithm updates through the lens of chaos engineering and their disruptive effects on SEO organizations.
August 29, 2023
- regular people, mental models, and Google?
Daniel Griffin
What do we know about how people make sense of Google to google?
August 22, 2023
August 22, 2023
- Heteromation astride 'automation v. augmentation'
Daniel Griffin
Brief post positioning heteromation concept alongside the automation versus augmentation debate, referencing Ekbia's work.
August 21, 2023
- What if general-purpose web search were more like searching for directions?
Daniel Griffin
Thinking about what if general-purpose web search were more like searching for directions...
August 7, 2023
- Data Voids and the Google This Ploy
Daniel Griffin
Thinking about comparing and contrasting 'prompt injection' and the 'Google This Ploy' (Caulfield, 2019)
August 4, 2023
- But how do we ground our relations to hallucination?
Daniel Griffin
Thinking about hallucination with Klosterman, Leahu, Munk et al., Rettberg, and Powles & Nissenbaum.
August 3, 2023
- elaborate structure
Daniel Griffin
Musings on elaboration, structure, memory, expectation, redundancy, and search.
July 17, 2023