I do NOT want search to become any fuzzier than it already is.
See the great decline of Google's search results, which often don't even have all the words you're asking about and likely omits the one that's most important, for a great example.
> I do NOT want search to become any fuzzier than it already is.
For a specialized shop site you may want it. Search term: "something 150", the client is looking for a 1.5m something, if you're doing an exact text search your search engine will give you a lot of noise. Or you'll have to fiddle with synonyms, dictionaries and how you index your products with a huge chance to break other types of search queries.
I want both fuzzy search and exact search. Google still has the "I'm feeling lucky" button, so it can support multiple search buttons. It could default to fuzzy search and have an "I'm feeling unlucky" button for exact search.
I don't necessarily want search to become any fuzzier than it already is either, but what's happened has happened and I've already responded to the decline of traditional search engines. Nowadays I pretty much only search duckduckgo with site:(something), or else I ask perplexity the question and for some links. Traditional search engines now just give a thousand SEOed-to-death articles, probably generated by ai, from hundreds of pointless third party websites that just have the same basic milk.
It might be that it's worth it to bifurcate soon. Search indexes and AI engines, doing different roles. The index would have to be sorted with AI though - to focus on original and first-party material and to downrank ad-driving slop.
userbinator|11 months ago
I do NOT want search to become any fuzzier than it already is.
See the great decline of Google's search results, which often don't even have all the words you're asking about and likely omits the one that's most important, for a great example.
arkh|11 months ago
> I do NOT want search to become any fuzzier than it already is.
For a specialized shop site you may want it. Search term: "something 150", the client is looking for a 1.5m something, if you're doing an exact text search your search engine will give you a lot of noise. Or you'll have to fiddle with synonyms, dictionaries and how you index your products with a huge chance to break other types of search queries.
kolinko|11 months ago
mrob|11 months ago
Joker_vD|11 months ago
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squiggleblaz|11 months ago
It might be that it's worth it to bifurcate soon. Search indexes and AI engines, doing different roles. The index would have to be sorted with AI though - to focus on original and first-party material and to downrank ad-driving slop.
jayd16|11 months ago