Google and its rivals are increasingly employing AI-generated summaries, but research indicates their results are far from authoritative and open to manipulation (3 Nov 2024) Instead of scrolling through a list of webpages to find the answer to a question, the thinking goes, an AI chatbot can scour the internet for you, combing it for…
(26 Jul 2024) OpenAI is announcing its much-anticipated entry into the search market, SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine with real-time access to information across the internet. SearchGPT is just a “prototype” for now. The service is powered by the GPT-4 family of models and will only be accessible to 10,000 test users at launch, OpenAI spokesperson Kayla…
(18 Feb 2024) In this commentary, the authors from University of Washington discuss the evolving nature of search engines, as they begin to generate, index, and distribute content created by generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). The discussion highlights challenges in the early stages of GenAI integration, particularly around factual inconsistencies and biases. They discuss how output…
(20 Mar 2023) Arron Tay shared his speculation on the possible impact of LLMs on academic libraries. “I’m going to focus on one specific area I have some expertise in, the implications of large language models (LLMs) on information retrieval and Q&A (Question and answer tasks) where LLMs are used in search engines to…
(11 Jan 2023) Microsoft is looking to incorporate ChatGPT, the viral chatbot from OpenAI, in its Bing search engine in a bid to beat Google Search. According to The Information, which cites unnamed sources familiar with the plans, ChatGPT would be used to answer search queries in Bing instead of merely showing links. This new version…
(26 December 2018) The National Diet Library has released The Best of National Diet Library’s Digital Library Collections (よりすぐり国立国会図書館). This web page provides patrons with a simple way to search through more than a hundred digital images of rare books, old materials, modern Japanese political history materials, and other examples of the best items available…
(12 December 2018) The Lens is an academic search engine that gathers patents and academic documents, such as articles, communications, books and theses, in a unified and separate system at the same time, since each type of document has its place on the results page. It stands out for offering innovative solutions with which it…
(8 October 2018) CORE, the world’s largest aggregator of open access scientific content, and Naver, South Korea’s number one search solution, have entered into a collaboration that will see CORE’s content being made available to 42 million Naver users. As part of the collaboration, Naver ingests data collected by CORE to enrich its Naver Academic…
(21 May 2018) Did you know about the search engine functionality in Chrome and other browsers? To get DOAJ search results while on any web page, you can set your browser’s search box to interface the DOAJ search engine and land on DOAJ’s search results page. This trick removes the need to first navigate to DOAJ…
(3 October 2017) Earlier this year the American Chemical Society (ACS), a leading source of academic publications in the field of chemistry, filed a lawsuit against Sci-Hub and its operator Alexandra Elbakyan. The non-profit organization publishes tens of thousands of articles a year in its peer-reviewed journals. Because many of these are available for free…