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SearchGPT Advanced Search Operators

         

Brett_Tabke

10:41 am on Aug 29, 2024 (gmt 0)

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SearchGPT Advanced Search Operators
Boolean Operators
  • AND: Finds documents containing all the specified terms.
  • OR: Finds documents containing any of the specified terms.
  • NOT: Excludes documents containing the specified term.

Proximity Search
  • NEAR: Finds documents where two terms are within a specified distance of each other.

Wildcard Search
  • *: Matches any number of characters.
    For example,
    "apple*" will match "apple", "apples", "applepie", etc.

  • ?: Matches a single character.
    For example,
    "apple?" will match "apples" but not "applepie".

Phrase Search
  • "": Finds documents containing the exact phrase.
    For example,
    `"tallest building"`.

File Type Search
  • filetype:: Finds documents of a specific file type.
    For example,
    `filetype:pdf`.

Site Search
  • site:: Finds documents from a specific website.
    For example,
    `site:nytimes.com`.

In URL Search
  • inurl:: Finds documents where the URL contains a specific term.
    For example,
    `inurl:blog`.

Title Search
  • intitle:: Finds documents where the title contains a specific term.
    For example,
    `intitle:technology`.

Date Range Search
  • date:: Finds documents from a specific date range.
    For example,
    `date:2023-01-01..2023-12-31`.

Number Range Search
  • ..: Finds documents containing numbers within a specific range.
    For example,
    `price:50..100`.

Define
  • define:: Provides the definition of a word.
    For example,
    `define:serendipity`.

Related
  • related:: Finds documents related to a specific URL.
    For example,
    `related:amazon.com`.

Cache
  • cache:: Displays the cached version of a webpage.
    For example,
    `cache:google.com`.

Allintitle
  • allintitle:: Finds documents where all the specified terms are in the title.

Allinurl
  • allinurl:: Finds documents where all the specified terms are in the URL.

phranque

10:00 pm on Aug 29, 2024 (gmt 0)

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Brett: "here's some candy"

NickMNS

5:54 pm on Aug 30, 2024 (gmt 0)

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I have got to say I'm a little confused by this. Isn't the point of AI/LLM, that you don't need to use "operators". We've always been able to search using operators. I would have thought that you could type
find documents with a distance of ....
Or
find words that start with apple.

Brett_Tabke

11:41 am on Aug 31, 2024 (gmt 0)

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It really does blow up the whole ;paradigm Nick. I too went into it thinking:

Bing/Google are search engines with supplemental results by AI.
SearchGPT is AI/LLM with Supplemental results by Search.


But it is much more nuanced that that. SearchGPT is really trying to have it's cake and eat it too by being primarily a dual mode beast from the outset. It gives the user the ability to pick-n-choose which mode-of-operation is the most appropriate. Whereas, Bing/Google slam AI results in your face whether you want them or not.

I just love that SearchGPT has one-up'd Google/Bing with the most complete set of search operators ever seen on the modern web. I hope they take it the next level and give users the full raft of options Bing and Google wont (because it would hit their ad income).