VOGLIA: THE WEBMIXER FOR SEARCH AND BROWSING
We can compare web search to a trip from point A to point B. The voglia.it platform aims to offer you tools such as multiple search (section A), direct search using search engines and databases (section B), direct search using artificial intelligence (section C), ultrafast search, and even some "tips" to make this journey as safe and comfortable as possible. Remembering, however, that you are the captain, and only you will have to make the right decisions based on the data you obtain and the analysis you can perform of that data. This way, you can decide how and when to depart, the most suitable means of transport to use, the intermediate stops you intend to make, how to deal with weather changes along the way, and, if you are well-prepared, also deal with any unforeseen events. It's no coincidence that these AI software and programs are called assistants, co-pilots, agents, chat(ro)bots, and therefore they should be used as such, as a research aid. It's not them who should choose and decide, but you. One of voglia.it's goals is to help you maintain a high level of attention, understanding, and curiosity, develop concepts, and seek out interesting content yourself. This is certainly more demanding than passively and uncritically receiving and scrolling through content, but it allows you to understand more precisely what is true or false, right or wrong: being aware of this is essential for using new technologies safely.
Traditional searches performed by search engines have been joined by those using AI, and therefore, the first thing to do today, before starting, is to ask yourself: should we use artificial intelligence, search engines, or should we integrate the two, and how? It seems like a trivial consideration, but it is at the heart of the future of web searches, now your intuition is absolutely crucial, here YOU DECIDE WHETHER IN YOUR CHOICES YOU WANT TO BE REPLACED BY ALGORITHMS OR EMPOWERED BY TECHNOLOGY. To do this correctly, you need to know and understand a series of information that voglia.it invites you, after reading it, to delve deeper and verify, just as the spirit of the site requires:
- today, AI uses two levels of search to provide answers: the first level is the preloaded internal and integrated database, static, offline, generally very robust in terms of knowledge, very fast, but updated only up to a certain cutoff date (knowledge cutoff point), very efficient for text and writing; the second level is web search, for non-preloaded or recent information, which currently is not free navigation but occurs via APIs (Application Programming Interfaces = software that allows computer systems to communicate), where the AI requests information from certain search engines that return data packets, consisting of URLs (Uniform Resource Locators = web address), snippets (=preview of a search result), limited content, and the answers are therefore a sort of list of contents or summaries, not in-depth information, here, the level of data interpretation is still very lacking, and the answers should be treated with great caution. So with a direct query to the AI, you'll get a very quick response, often with sources listed, organized, superficial, filtered, summarized, limited in variety, and sometimes unreliable;
- search engines offer a greater variety of answers in a static, redundant manner, without filters and interpretations, requiring greater effort and attention during the search process, presenting difficulties in orienting the analysis of results, and sometimes preventing the possibility of reaching the desired result quickly;
- integration can yield excellent results, let's see how by analyzing the description of a possible search flow: first, you can tell the AI the search topic and obtain a starting point; here, your caution is the indispensable security filter; then you need to decide on the query (=question), the starting point of the search: to correctly define a query, it's good to use specific keywords, choose the order of the words, indicate terms and characters called logical search operators; these measures vary depending on the search engines or AIs used, so to improve results, interface with the AI to directly ask for help or guidance on the most appropriate query to submit to the search engines via multiple searches (section A), direct searches (section B and section C), or the ultrafast search for the voglia.it website. Once you've obtained the response sheets from the search engines, copy the results from the sources you consider most reliable and paste them into the AI chats you deem most suitable. Ask for a filtered and sorted list of results, the points of agreement and disagreement, and any other requests you can think of. This allows you to further segment the data before even clicking the most interesting links, making your final analysis even more targeted and precise. This way, AI is no longer used as a substitute, but as a multiplier of your capabilities: you define the strategy, you conduct the data collection and make the final judgment, the AI synthesizes, groups and structures, exponentially accelerating your analysis cycle. Also visit the data analysis page. If this way of conducting research becomes widespread, it won't be the success of the voglia.it web platform, but it will be the success of all those who use it and spread its message, helping to improve the world one click at a time: with the voglia.it discovery engine we can do it.
