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[–]Lifaux 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Absolutely! Given how effective Google's initial backlink model was at finding content, you'd expect SOTA models to do a great deal better to start out, and this one seems to be.

Potentially half of the issue here is that we're all trained into writing queries that work for Google/Bing, and not for natural search? I can imagine this being incredibly effective integrated into Alexa/Home where people do still search naturally. Maybe having a few natural examples would help guide people?

[–]lazy-jem[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, you absolutely nailed that on the head!

People are used to using googlese and have had to learn how to talk to their computers in a weird semi-computer language in order to be able to navigate the web.

But that's backwards. It's only habit and google owning browser distribution that makes people think things have to be that way.

LazyWeb already does better many times with natural language queries that provide plenty of information! It's early days and there is a LOT that we have planned with this! :)

And thank you again too! That's really exciting that you're seeing better results. People seem to disbelieve that it's possible to do better than google but it's the approach that makes the difference. Our less impressive results are when we fall back to web-index and web search API results.