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...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...
...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. 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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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?"
...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...
...], 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...
...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...
...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,...