AngelaHoover

Over time, I can imagine there's going to be a lot of sensitive information being stored. How are you handling privacy?

I've been having issues managing different work projects in notion because there's not enough separation between ideas. The containerized aspect is appealing to me. Are you going to add docs / ability to link to docs in future?

Andi (YC W22) | AI Engineer | San Francisco | Onsite (preferred) / Hybrid | Full-time | https://andisearch.com

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LOL yes - Andi definitely has a sense of humor!

This is really helpful and roger that, we'll remove the other options. For the Search bar, we were planning to make it bigger, so this has confirmed and boosted the priority for that! We deeply believe that a conversational interface is the future of search but we have a lot of work to do in order to make it a seamless and enjoyable UX.

Thanks, so you mean the scroll bar located in the middle of the screen? And that's a helpful point re readability of the snippets. We've heard (on multiple occasions) that our UX needs a lot of work and we're planning to get some help with that soon. We're a very ambitious team but it's a lot of work for two people! I sincerely appreciate you trying it out and giving us feedback :)

Thanks so much and yes it's something we're planning to add into the results. For the moment thing you can do is use Andi to search websites and go directly to results, ie "go reddit best laptops 2022"

Hey, we don't know picodguyo but Pouya is one of our W22 batchmates and just trying to be supportive of us. It's my bad, I'm sorry!

Thanks, I tried:

Q: "who is the current president" A: The current president of the United States is Joe Biden since January 20, 2021

Q: "Who is the previous president?" A: Pulls a snippet from the top of the wikipedia article 'List of presidents of the United States'

Q: Is this a leap year A: Got the same response about Sci - Fi LOL thank you, added to the bugs list! He's a friendly bot :)

Q: When did Neil Armstrong land on Mars A: Pulled a snippet of text from Neil Armstrong's wiki page and says I found this information on wikipedia.org:

I tried a different query,

Q: did Neil Armstrong land on the Moon? A: Yes, Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.

It's experimental, but we know it can only improve over time and we're really excited people are trying out! And I agree that we need to add additional parameters for when do preform a deep answer vs. when to just display the results.

Thanks, I changed the settings for complex question answering to high depth but slower and got "I love sushi. I'm learning". Then I tried medium depth and speed and got "pizza, I love it" haha Then I went back to best bet, and it answered "I'm not sure yet" !

Thanks for pointing this out and I added the query to our bugs list. This is still an experiential feature so there are kinks to work out but feedback helps us immensely. I tried a couple of variations of the search with increased specificity like "bc ferry schedule for Coastal Inspiration" and Andi is struggling with this query! As Jed mentioned in a comment earlier, you can also turn off complex question answering in settings.

Thanks for the great question. Andi works well for keyword searches but where it really shines is when you give it more context. The key reasons for a chat interface are that it's simple, familiar and uncluttered, and reveals information progressively.

* Chat is minimalist. Part of the problem with google is "information overwhelm" - all the clutter and distraction in results.

* It's a super easy and familiar interface. Gen-Z users especially tells us they prefer messaging apps and visual feeds like Instagram.

* Combined with visual cards, a chat UI gives you progressive-reveal of information.

* conversational search long-term provides a natural and very human way to explore and refine results. Humans are really great at querying each other and maintaining context. And long term that's the aim here.

When you think if sci-fi AI, they are always conversational. It seems likely that's what the future will look like, rather than a page of truncated links with a lot of ads. So that's our thinking for the conversational interface, and we're super open and excited to hear more feedback on it! :)

Thank you so much! Agree with you that the direct question answering on mobile fits nicely. We appreciate the feedback on adding a feature to limit the results based on a time range, it's a good idea and I can see a lot of use cases for that.