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Yuveganlife Tests of Generative Web Search Tools
Link to Bruce Yu's user-driven evaluation of generative web search tools using 5 simple test questions.
on posting screenshots of the results or responses from search systems
A brief post linking to a Twitter post discussing considerations around posting screenshots of search system results or responses.
[thyroid nodule treatments]
A short post linking to a Twitter post tagged as a speculative classroom exercise about thyroid nodule treatments.
on a plagiarism–index
A short post linking to a Twitter post proposing a speculative 'plagiarism index' as a classroom exercise.
On developing informed preferences for models in generative web search
I quote-tweeted the above on Dec 10th, pasted with some edits below. The implicit social-search-request and responses was a great reminder of the work from LMSYS.org ( website | twitter | @zheng2023ju...
comparing results for [What is answer.ai (from Howard & Ries)?]
A brief index post linking to comparisons of search results across Perplexity, You.com, Bard, Bing, Tavily, and a custom generative search baseline for the 'What is answer.ai?' query.
Building a Generative Web Search Arena
I mention the need for something like this in several posts (which I will organize below). But I'm going to just start building it out myself.[^remotivated] - Dec 10th[^1]: On developing informed pref...
comparing results for [What is generative web search? site:danielsgriffin.com]
Comparison of results from Perplexity AI.Copilot, YouChat.GPT-4, and Tavily when searching 'What is generative web search? site:danielsgriffin.com', noting high dependency on indexing quality.
YouChat.GPT-4[What is generative web search? site:danielsgriffin.com]
[comparing results for [What is generative web search? site:danielsgriffin.com]](/2023/12/14/comparing-results-for-what-is-generative-web-search-site/) For other systems on this theme, see: - [Perplex...
Perplexity AI.Copilot[What is generative web search? site:danielsgriffin.com]
Documents Perplexity AI.Copilot's responses to querying 'What is generative web search? site:danielsgriffin.com' in two variations, with evaluations noting distractions from off-site sources and mixed adherence to the site: operator.
Tavily[What is generative web search?]
This is my second use of Tavily. [comparing results for [What is generative web search? site:danielsgriffin.com]](/2023/12/14/comparing-results-for-what-is-generative-web-search-site/) For other syste...
A generative search baseline from the You.com Web Search API, a simple prompt, and gpt-3.5-turbo
LOOSE NOTES [comparing results for [What is answer.ai (from Howard & Ries)?]](/2023/12/14/comparing-results-for-what-is-answerai-from-howard-and-ries/) For other systems on this theme, see: - Perplexi...
Tavily[What is answer.ai (from Howard & Ries)?]
Documents testing Tavily's generative search API with the query 'What is answer.ai (from Howard & Ries)?', showing the system failed to locate the specific entity and returned unrelated 'Answer AI' products instead.
Who is going back through prior search interfaces?
Tavily
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.
"We might be returning to the early/pre-Google era of the 1990s where there were multiple search engines"
[What is answer.ai (from Howard & Ries)?]
Comparative evaluation of Perplexity, You.com, Bard, and Bing responses about the newly launched answer.ai R&D lab.