fear of Google abandoning Google Scholar
Notes on a fear of Google abandoning Google Scholar.
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Searching Mastodon?
What do the communities on Mastodon think about full text search?
Looking at harmful & empowering uses of Twitter Search (prospectus)
Here is text of my prospectus for applying to the 2021 Information Operations Fellowship with Twitter’s Trust & Safety Team.
search automation bias (SAB)
Search automation bias is one term for the production of epistemic automaticity in the Google Web Search paradigm.
My paper with Emma Lurie was published
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conventional search engines are limited to retrieving pre-existing webpages?
mastodon.social/@danielsgriffin
consumer search?
What does 'consumer search' mean?
more than a party trick?
Can Google Lens be more than a party trick?
still searching for gorillas
still searching for gorillas (or not?)
activities in dialogue and success in software development
Flagging two excerpts from a recent Google Research blogpost
The End of Computer Programming as We Know It - Again
The hard problems remain, how to use a tool to do something you or someone else wants.
Perplexity, Ads, and SUVs
Follow-up: [\[I want to buy a new SUV which brand is best?\]](/2023/06/28/i-want-to-buy-a-new-suv-which-brand-is-best). I don't think ads[1] are necessarily wrong to have in search results (despite th...
imagining OpenGoogle?
\@generativist via Twitter on Jun 26, 2023 i imagine there’s no alpha left in adding the word “open” to various names anymore, right? My first thought in response to this was that someone should write...
[I want to buy a new SUV which brand is best?]
Comparative screenshot collection showing initial search results from seven generative search tools for the query about which SUV brand is best.
definitions of prompt engineering evolving and shapeshifting
the definition(s) and use(s) of "prompt engineering" will continue to evolve, shapeshift, fragment and become even more multiple and context-dependent. But still a useful handle? [ highlighting added]...
all you need is Sourcegraph's Cody?
Downloaded. > You’re all set > > Once embeddings are finished being generated, you can specify Cody’s context and start asking questions in the Cody Chat. Current status: "Generating repositories embe...
very few worthwhile tasks?
Follow-up: very few 2-3 sentence descriptions connect (weblog). What is a "worthwhile task"? [ highlighting added] \@benedictevans The more I look at chatGPT, the more I think that the fact NLP didn’t...
TIL git alias
Learned how to use git status --short and create git aliases to filter out _site directory changes from Jekyll builds. Includes search tool comparisons using You.com, Perplexity AI, and Phind.
very few 2-3 sentence descriptions connect
Responds to Benedict Evans' tweet about ChatGPT tasks, arguing the challenge isn't describing tasks briefly but finding the right prompts that connect searchers to their goals. Draws on dissertation research about how data engineers grow queries from code and conversation seeds.
"Why Johnny Can’t Prompt"
status: unread (2023-06-30 17:06:56) Why Johnny Can’t Prompt: How Non-AI Experts Try (and Fail) to Design LLM Prompts bibtex @inproceedings{zamfirescu-pereira2023johnny, author = {Zamfirescu-Pereira,...