{"id":8726,"date":"2023-03-22T15:54:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T15:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/22\/google-explains-why-bard-rarely-lists-citations-and-links-to-content-creators\/"},"modified":"2023-03-22T15:54:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T15:54:18","slug":"google-explains-why-bard-rarely-lists-citations-and-links-to-content-creators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/22\/google-explains-why-bard-rarely-lists-citations-and-links-to-content-creators\/","title":{"rendered":"Google explains why Bard rarely lists citations and links to content creators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google began to open Bard<\/a> yesterday and as more of us began to use it<\/a> and compare it to competitors like Bing Chat<\/a> and OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, we are noticing differences between them. One of the big differences between Google Bard and Bing Chat is that Bard seems to rarely show citations<\/a> and links to publishers and content creators.<\/p>\n

Why Google rarely shows citations. <\/strong>Google has updated its Bard FAQs<\/a> to explain that Bard will likely show citations when Bard \u201cdirectly quotes at length from a webpage.\u201d Otherwise, Bard won\u2019t show a citation because Bard \u201cgenerates original content\u201d and does \u201cnot replicate existing content at length.\u201d<\/p>\n

Google wrote:<\/p>\n

\u201cHow and when does Bard cite sources in its responses?
Bard, like some other standalone LLM experiences, is intended to generate original content and not replicate existing content at length. We\u2019ve designed our systems to limit the chances of this occurring, and we will continue to improve how these systems function. If Bard does directly quote at length from a webpage, it cites that page.<\/p>\n

Bard was built to be a creative and helpful collaborator\u2014it works well in creative tasks like helping you write an email or brainstorm ideas for a birthday party. We see it as a complementary experience to Google Search. That\u2019s why we added the \u201cGoogle It\u201d button to Bard, so people can easily move from Bard to explore information from across the web.<\/p>\n

Bard is an experiment, and we\u2019ll use its launch as an opportunity to learn, iterate, and improve the experience as we get feedback from a range of stakeholders including people like you, publishers, creators, and more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Examples. <\/strong>Here is an example of Bard answering a question but not having any citations:<\/p>\n

Compare that to asking Bing Chat exactly the same question and Bing links to its sources:<\/p>\n

Google It button. <\/strong>Google does say, to use the \u201cGoogle It\u201d button to go to search to click on content that matches the query. Google has that button, it said, \u201cso people can easily move from Bard to explore information from across the web.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Google shows links and citations. <\/strong>Here is an example of Google showing citations and links but to be fair, these links did not show up in the first draft response, it only showed in the subsequent draft responses:<\/p>\n

Why we care. <\/strong>For now, Google Bard likely won\u2019t be sending a lot of traffic to the web or websites. Google has said Google Bard is\u00a0not a replacement for Search<\/a>. Google currently sees Bard as a different kind of tool and will adapt it over time. But for now, Google wrote, \u201cBard is an experiment, and we\u2019ll use its launch as an opportunity to learn, iterate, and improve the experience as we get feedback from a range of stakeholders including people like you, publishers, creators, and more.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Google began to open Bard yesterday and as more of us began to use it and compare it to competitors like Bing Chat and OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, we are noticing differences between them. One of the big differences between Google Bard and Bing Chat is that Bard seems to rarely show citations and links to publishers and content creators. Why Google rarely shows citations. Google has updated its Bard FAQs to explain that Bard will likely show citations when Bard \u201cdirectly quotes at length from a webpage.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-seo-blogs"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}