Search launches new semantic search engine
Andi Search launches a new semantic search engine today, along with a better source attribution as well as a brand new user experience.
Angela Hoover, founder of the company, says that Concepts are better than keywords. Search now understands concepts better. The goal is better highlighting content. Hoover says that Andi can do this by being able to rank the content in a semantic way.
- The high-quality content, which producers have spent hours creating and researching, is what makes the internet great. Since Google began doing snippets in search, fair content attribution has been a problem. Now, LLM search offers a new experience that buryes the original content creator even further.
- “Our commitment is not to steal information or great content, but rather to show it off. Hoover stated that GenAI can be used to benefit both users and media producers.
This is what it looks like. An example search results for [suggest ways to lower blood pressure for a 35-year-old]:
Visual updates. Now Andi uses a universal image discriminator, which determines the image’s quality and size before dynamically resizing it for display in its visual feed. Images are taken from Andi’s results.
What’s Andi? It is a search engine startup that did conversational and generative question-answering before Bing or Google Search Generative Experience. It produces results based on its index of over 30,000 high quality websites.
Dig deeper. Andi Search now includes a feature for Generated Content.
Why do we care? Andi is trying to differentiate itself from Google’s and Bing’s generative AI experiences by citing the sources of its information. Andi, an alternative search engine, has a fraction of Google’s users and may not be on your SEO radar. However, it is fascinating to watch the evolution of Andi’s visual, search result-based feed.
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