I’m assuming this would basically be like a wrapper that takes a search term, concatenates it with a bunch of google “site:site1 OR site:site2...” boolean terms, then displays the results. If so, then sure, I’d like to have such a string pre-formed, but I don’t think it’s something that valuable to me personally, or something I’d pay for. If not, I’d be curious to hear more about what you mean.
It would be nice to be able to form such a search for a set of sites of my choosing (text box, comma separated list, something like that), or a list of recommendations for sites I might want to include but not know about yet (checkboxes?).
Maybe a way to sort or filter by level of technical rigor or mathematical ability assumed?
Maybe an explanation, for each site searched, why that site is included, and a sentence or two about what to expect from things found on that site?
At my last job we had some data scientists build a tool to convert a relatively intuitive interface for inputting Boolean search terms to the specific forms needed for APIs of various data sources. We used it for patents, papers, that kind of thing. Sometimes the search strings ended up having to be 5-10 lines long. That was mostly when a term could be used lots of ways and we only needed one of them, or when there were combinatorically many ways of combining sets of terms to mean the overall same thing. So, I do think there can be a lot of value in prompt engineering for searches in targeted contexts.
Do you think LLMs will get to a point of being able to do this relatively well with the right prompts?
I’m assuming this would basically be like a wrapper that takes a search term, concatenates it with a bunch of google “site:site1 OR site:site2...” boolean terms, then displays the results. If so, then sure, I’d like to have such a string pre-formed, but I don’t think it’s something that valuable to me personally, or something I’d pay for. If not, I’d be curious to hear more about what you mean.
It would be nice to be able to form such a search for a set of sites of my choosing (text box, comma separated list, something like that), or a list of recommendations for sites I might want to include but not know about yet (checkboxes?).
Maybe a way to sort or filter by level of technical rigor or mathematical ability assumed?
Maybe an explanation, for each site searched, why that site is included, and a sentence or two about what to expect from things found on that site?
My understanding is that google limits the search space to ten sites.
>set of sites of my choosing
Perhaps a standard set of sites that could be customized with the option to submit requests for additions.
Thanks for the ideas.
I didn’t know google had that limit, thanks.
At my last job we had some data scientists build a tool to convert a relatively intuitive interface for inputting Boolean search terms to the specific forms needed for APIs of various data sources. We used it for patents, papers, that kind of thing. Sometimes the search strings ended up having to be 5-10 lines long. That was mostly when a term could be used lots of ways and we only needed one of them, or when there were combinatorically many ways of combining sets of terms to mean the overall same thing. So, I do think there can be a lot of value in prompt engineering for searches in targeted contexts.
Do you think LLMs will get to a point of being able to do this relatively well with the right prompts?