Show urls the assistant sees on the side or in some menu

cardinal086

Similarly to other AI search assistants show all the urls the assistant sees/gets, not just the ones it cites.
This would allow for the user to better judge if something was missed or if the search results were just bad, especially for lenses where relevant websites may be filtered.

See phind.com for an example, the user can use the search sidebar to visit the webpages themselves or judge if the search was relevant and change the lens or search query accordingly.

Value7609

The assistant basically just searches for your prompt. If you copy your prompt and enter it into search it will give you the same results.

cardinal086

This is clear to me, however without doing this separately for every assistant question it is hard to judge if the relevant information was in the search and the assistant just missed it or if it was not.

Also because the search is faster than the assistant answer it gives very quick insight if one can expect a good answer (see phind.com). Maybe make it hideable with a toggle if this information is too distracting for some.

Vlad

cardinal086 How does this look on mobile?

cardinal086

On mobile I'd hide these and make them available through a button.
Other services (both phind and perplexity) show them above results as a few cards with all results toggleable.

Personally I would not see a use for them on mobile since viewing the urls and opening them is much more cumbersome than on desktop.
However, on desktop there is no need not to show the search (as it has been done anyways) and there is more than enough space.

Vlad

cardinal086 This is now in the works for assistant v2

cardinal086

Is there still a plan to implement this in v2? I can see there is now a button which is quite nice but an option to actually display the results on desktop would be great (e.g. phind).