search directives
Early draft on search directives, exploring how posts suggest specific Google search terms to co-opt Google's perceived impartiality.
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'Trending' in search
Draft covering trending searches via Google Trends, with research by Gillespie on algorithms becoming culture and critical perspectives on using Google Trends data.
Google's "Get the answer you're looking for added to the web"
Google sometimes displays a text books to
null results
Brief draft about null results (searches with no results) and their relation to data voids, with a link to how the site's search handles them.
autocomplete in web search
Comprehensive draft on Google autocomplete's benefits, harms (amplifying social bias, gaming), and warnings about misconceptions like autocompletions not representing most popular searches.
"the importance of open discussion of these new tools gave me pause"
An excerpt from Davey Alba's article, "Even Google Insiders Are Questioning Bard AI Chatbot’s Usefulness".
Mentioned in Bloomberg article by Davey Alba
My comments about the Bard Discord server were picked up by Davey Alba and she talked to me for an article in Bloomberg.
On heartfelt discursive uses of Google autocomplete
See [flights to israel] and [why does the us support israel]
"he hopes to see AI-powered search tools shake things up"
An excerpt from Will Knight's article, "Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search".
What do you call it when links are not selectable?
Exploring Google Bard's non-selectable 'Search related topics' links and whether this UX limitation constitutes hostile design.
Bard on the Cat Brains planted query
Shares response from Bard and brief additional comments re running Will Knight's "hallucination test".
Can you write about examples of LLM hallucination without poisoning the web?
How do you share about misinformation without spreading it? How do you link to the outputs of chatbots and generative search engines without deceiving folks?
Mentioned in Wired article by Will Knight
My comments about poisoning Bing were picked up by Will Knight and he talked to me for an article in Wired.
How do different generative search tools deal with links as the query?
Bing Chat, Perplexity AI, and Phind retrieve and summarize.
Searching masked or "voldemorted" URLs
How well do search engines deal with masked URLs?
Highlighting LLM-Generated Content in Search Results: Do We Need a New Link Attribute?
Exploring the challenges of differentiating LLM-generated content in search results and proposing possible actions.
[Please double check this statement: "You can improve your SEO by simply adding "reddit" onto the end of all of your website page titles.]
Testing and comparing the fact-checking capabilities of various generative search systems (Andi, Metaphor, Perplexity, Phind, You.com) on a false SEO claim.
[Summarize Will Knight's article "Google's Secret AI Project That Uses Cat Brains"]
Sharing an example hallucination test.
"a public beta of our project, Collective Cognition to share ChatGPT chats"
Weblinks post announcing the public beta of Collective Cognition, a project for sharing ChatGPT conversations.
Is there any paper about the increasing “arXivification” of CS/HCI?
a tweet from Ian Arawjo