Liberating Search From the Search Engine
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The article discusses liberating search from traditional search engines by making search results available via APIs for client-side processing, sparking a discussion on the differences between this approach and current pagination methods.
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How does this differ from what currently is available? I suppose right now you have to paginate instead of just getting 1000 results in one chunk. Oh, I don’t think perplexity’s search api even let’s you paginate, so I guess there’s that.
I don’t think search companies are likely to do stuff like this to make ranking experiments easier on us. Have you read this article: https://archive.org/details/search-timeline