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by SV_BubbleTime 1297 days ago
I’ve been thinking about exactly this.

That “it’s just a different search front end”… but I think after more experience with it I disagree.

At its worst, it’s “multiple searches” at once.

Example1… I wanted to find a CAGE for code a specific military mfg. I only had the last 3 digits. I asked for CAGE codes that match and got all the answers instantly. I could have searched this, but it would have been multiple searches.

I asked for the etymology for the Swahili word for trapezoid… again, multiple searches. If I could have found links to the Arabic root of some Swahili words at all.

That’s it’s worst case, convenient multiple searches. The better case is the UX of a conversation is powerful for the user, in a way we are just learning the words for.