ROBOTS.TXT PARSER
A robots.txt parser from Will Critchlow.
Nov 16, 2023 update to Google's Search Quality Rater Guidelines
Weblink post sharing Twitter announcements about November 16, 2023 updates to Google's Search Quality Rater Guidelines.
"Perplexity user: “Microsoft banned your domain, so can't use it on work devices”."
A post from Aravind Srinivas
Open Philanthropy RFP: "studying and forecasting the real-world impacts of systems built from LLMs"
Sharing a Request for Proposals from Open Philanthropy.
Similaring: Monitoring and Logging similar searches with the Metaphor API
Sharing a script and search results for some find_similar searches on Metaphor.
How to share TIL or short-comment-type searches?
Reflection on wanting to share recent searches, considering building a new post category and browser export system for search queries.
Thread from @searchliaison: "Last week, I gave a presentation about Google Search results not being perfect, how we...
A thread from Google's Search Liaison.
"this is well within the model training (it has very likely seen a ton of code for pong)"
A post from Anton Bacaj.
"Anyone else finding the new ChatGPT-4 with browsing to be a major downgrade?"
A post from Geoffrey Litt.
"Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise will now simply become Copilot."
A post from Jordi Ribas.
"HotGirls on TikTok, why do I look stupid at the gym?"
A social-search-request example.
ssr: "what are the most useful LLM-powered apps?"
A social-search-request from Timothy B. Lee.
Friday AI
A screenshot from Friday AI.
A syllabus for 'Taking an Internet Walk'
“explore practices for discovering, maintaining, and adding to the many internets blossoming beneath app hedges and large platforms:”
"Don't make me type everything into a box, let me point at stuff."
A post from Rob Haisfield.
"way more accessible to have a list of experiences to try"
A post from Nick Dobos.
TikTok to text: Pyktok, FFmpeg, and Whisper
An example setup for transcribing videos from TikTok.
"building a search engine by listing "every query anyone might ever make""
A post from François Chollet.
[dbw0340tokfkds;a]
Fact-checks a Reddit claim about unique Google searches by analyzing the random query 'dbw0340tokfkds;a' through Google Trends data.
"We don’t have relevancy ratings for search engines"
An excerpt from Sullivan (2017).