Internet Search Is Not a Naive Information Retrieval Problem

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patrickhogan1 · 1h ago

I agree with you theoretically. But this is a situation where LLMs are far better at surfacing relevant results than Google. Perhaps due to perverse incentives. Google might fight spam but seems to have started losing that battle a few years ago when it optimized for search quantity over quality.

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Internet Search Is Not a Naive Information Retrieval Problem

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