Hacker News with Generative AI: Web Search

Ask HN: How to Use "Deep Research"? (ycombinator.com)
The issue I have had with llms since the start has been the slop. Contrary to popular belief, the open web was mostly slop before ChatGPT. We just used to call it SEO blogspam. And all llms are trained on them.

AI, Information Retrieval, Web Search

22 points by muddi900 20 days ago | 17 comments

Anthropic appears to be using Brave to power web search for its Claude chatbot (techcrunch.com)
Earlier this week, Anthropic rolled out a web search feature for its AI-powered chatbot platform, Claude, bringing the bot in line with many of its rivals.

Generative AI, Chatbots, Web Search, AI-Powered Tools, Technology

8 points by bookofjoe 34 days ago | 0 comments

Claude can now search the web (anthropic.com)
You can now use Claude to search the internet to provide more up-to-date and relevant responses.

Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Web Search

1233 points by meetpateltech 37 days ago | 726 comments

Ask HN: Which Search Engine do you use? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Which Search Engine do you use?

Search Engines, Web Search, Technology, Community

5 points by b8 56 days ago | 12 comments

Show HN: Exa (YC S21) – embeddings search agent with >20x recall than Google (websets.exa.ai)
<h2>Find the perfect list of results</h2>

Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Web Search

28 points by willbryk720 60 days ago | 4 comments

Alibaba Qwen: AI model that writes, generates images/videos, and does web search (twitter.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Language Models, Web Search

5 points by frizlab 86 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: How do I search the web in the age of enshittified search engines? (ycombinator.com)
Like most internet users I used to use Google to search for information but now the quality of the results is abysmal and I no longer find it useful most of the time.

Search Engines, Web Search, Technology, Frustration, User Experience

51 points by ManlyBread 147 days ago | 36 comments

The Deterioration of Google (baldurbjarnason.com)
This post announcing the closure of Giant Freakin Robot set me on a bit of a journey into the state of Google.

Google, Technology, Web Search, Decline

20 points by rapnie 170 days ago | 18 comments

Chromium uses web search for .internal TLD instead of opening URL (chromium.org)

Chromium, Web Search, Domain Names, Security

116 points by nh2 184 days ago | 85 comments

Ask HN: Did Google search change (for the worse) today? (ycombinator.com)

Google Search, User Experience, Technology, Web Search

10 points by elchief 247 days ago | 14 comments

A short update on getting answers on the modern internet (wadetregaskis.com)

Internet, Information Retrieval, Technology, Web Search

8 points by ingve 296 days ago | 0 comments

Google (1998) (archive.org)

History, Google, Web Search, Internet

18 points by EndXA 321 days ago | 0 comments

Bing API is down, bringing Microsoft Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT web search (techcrunch.com)