[niek_pas]

Genuine question: do you add 'please' and 'thank you' to Google searches? If not, what sets them apart?

[perching_aix]

Google searches being keyword based, rather than simulated conversations?

The same reason you wouldn't put in an entire actual question/sentence, unless you either don't know how to use Google, are pissed off, or have an actual reason to suspect that it would yield proper hits (e.g. looking up an excerpt).

[Arch-TK]

Google has been optimized for sentence like questions so much that for a good 6+ years now it has been completely useless as keyword search.

To clarify: sentence search got slightly better at the cost of keyword search. So the result is unusable garbage.

[wolpoli]

It is rather hard to lose of habit of using search engine with keywords given the change took place without much fanfare. I have no problem using sentences with the current ai tools through.

[gum_wobble]

Genuine question: do you write Google search queries in natural language?

[fc417fc802]

I didn't used to but I do now that the searches go straight to an LLM. I almost always find the model output to be much more useful than the list of search results.

[dminik]

I don't. I was recently doing some searching for information I thought AI would be good for: fuzzy natural language search with some conditions. And it was, but ...

Gemini at least is not great at citing and picking sources. Or providing multiple sources for the same thing.

It tends to stop at threes. So if you want more, you have to prompt it uselessly, like: "any more?"

[globalnode]

llms seem more human like so if you were to treat them badly then you are more likely to condition yourself to treat other living creatures badly.

[spiderfarmer]

Google isn’t conversational.

[sunrunner]

I searched for "Hey Google" and got this in response:

  Hey! I'm here and ready to help. What’s on your mind today? Whether you need to look up information, plan a trip, or get things done, just let me know!

[selcuka]

That's only because Google is an LLM now.

[barbazoo]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk ?

[tokai]

One of the dumbest thing supposedly clever people keep bringing up.