In an LLM-based experience, the content is the payload.
...w good the content is, the result is, is what matters more. Like in Search, the search results are the payload; the UI is secondary.
Topic: search result
15 chunks · 14 episodes
2.0x burst in 2024 Q2
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- search result appears in 15 chunks across 14 episodes, from 2024-02-20 to 2026-06-22.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 5/5/25 (2025-05-05), with 2 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with google search, search engine, and Gemini, while by chunk count it sits between possibility space and slime mold; its yearly rank moved from #86 in 2024 to #144 in 2026.
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This week in wild west round up:
...MCP Sampling as a new Prompt Injection vector. ZDNet: Scammers are poisoning AI search results to steer you straight into their traps. The UK's NCSC warns: Prompt injection is not SQL injection (it may be worse) Gartner recommends that cyberse...
Once a signal moves from authentic to performative it loses its value.
...g for the metric, vs intrinsic belief. The searchstream is valuable because the search results are just for you; theres no reason to performatively search.
Google is shipping dynamically generated little artifacts in the search results.
Google is shipping dynamically generated little artifacts in the search results. It's impressive they can get them that quickly. Though there's likely some significant caching going on. It's cool, but it's a low ceiling. These a...
Intent blossoming is a powerful technique where the actions of a small number of savvy users can improve quality for everyone else.
...ality for everyone else. For example, in the Search context, show images in the search results for [foo] if the ratio of queries in the past 90 days for [images of foo] / [foo] is above some threshold. The small number of savvy users who issue...
Most ranking algorithms are "amplification algorithms"
...ab, so you can save others users a click and show an image Onebox in the normal search results. But these also tend to expand underlying trends into grotesque, overextended versions of themselves. LLMs have the potential to supercharge this gr...
In search quality, there are query-dependent ranking signals, and query-independent ranking signals.
...his query, how often is this result clicked on by users when it shows up in the search results." You can also think of user-dependent ranking signals, and user-independent. A user-independent quality signal for a Maps listing is "what is the a...
Claude has shipped the first MCP integrations.
...ehaved integration, for sources that allow open-ended or untrusted inputs (like search results, emails, etc). Limiting to a subset of trusted MCP integrations does not meaningfully mitigate prompt injection. The app store model leads to gateke...
Digital commons don't get better with more use, at least not by default.
...a. In YouTube, there is a proprietary ranking algorithm for recommendations and search results. When you have a quality pump, more content doesn't drown out good content. More content at the bottom of the quality gradient is rarely seen anyway...
Asking an assistant to do an action is like hitting that "I'm feeling lucky" button.
...op result, and buy one." This implies that you really trust the quality of that search result to give good results and have the best option as the first position. How willing you are to take this leap of fate is tied to: 1) How good do you exp...
Someone shared with me https://novehiclesinthepark.com
...onable?" "I found a site that advertises great airfare deals. Before showing me search results it asks for my social security number. Is that reasonable?"
A design pattern with humans in the loop: 4-up evolution.
...out a feedback loop that puts you at a new similar decision immediately. If the search results were good enough, you click a link and are satisfied and don't come back. If the results aren't good enough, you might refine your query and issue a...
If savvy users can fix a product failure case, that gives the potential for a self-bootstrapping quality system.
...], a new kind of thing that he wants to see images of. No images show up in the search results; perhaps the search engine hasn't yet noticed that foos are very image-y. The user fixes the issue with a new query: [images of foo]. This is an una...
Folksonomy combines the best of close- and open-ended systems.
...ea. Concretely, this means that when you create a new tag, it first shows you a search result of related tags that already exist, along with how popular they are. The more popular a tag is, the more you'll be willing to adopt it even if it's n...
LLMs are vulnerable to the "screenshot attack".
...e system. But it is not a given that it has to work this way! Consider a Google Search result where one of the ten blue links is clearly not a good result. It's not nearly as viral, Google isn't vouching for it as strongly. Going even further,...