What about the history of the Boolean search ? All those years of that method and now poof it’s more natural language. I supposed I’m curious who on the tool side is getting search right? The 20 years of Boolean and the tools we have had …did they kill serendipity? I do miss that way of finding information. Are any tools out there figuring this out yet?
Don't think anyone is killing Boolean, behind the scenes these tools are either a) converting your natural language to boolean (which is often shown) or b) Doing something else AND boolean. I mean if they are keeping boolean mechanism behind the scene, I would think keeping the Boolean mode, basically the interface wouldn't cost that much extra? But who knows?
Still while I think Boolean has it uses (when you need high levels of control and reproducibility), but it's use has been declining. Call me crazy but for most everyday use cases, I would take anything that gives me higher recall/precision, never mind if it is strict boolean or not. This is basically the lesson Google learnt.
What about the history of the Boolean search ? All those years of that method and now poof it’s more natural language. I supposed I’m curious who on the tool side is getting search right? The 20 years of Boolean and the tools we have had …did they kill serendipity? I do miss that way of finding information. Are any tools out there figuring this out yet?
This post isn't about killing Boolean, you want this post https://aarontay.substack.com/p/the-horseless-carriage-of-ai-search (sort of).
Don't think anyone is killing Boolean, behind the scenes these tools are either a) converting your natural language to boolean (which is often shown) or b) Doing something else AND boolean. I mean if they are keeping boolean mechanism behind the scene, I would think keeping the Boolean mode, basically the interface wouldn't cost that much extra? But who knows?
Still while I think Boolean has it uses (when you need high levels of control and reproducibility), but it's use has been declining. Call me crazy but for most everyday use cases, I would take anything that gives me higher recall/precision, never mind if it is strict boolean or not. This is basically the lesson Google learnt.