SearchGPT vs Talk to Books

SearchGPT at searchgpt.ai is a spreadsheet generator from Owens Laboratories. You describe the table you want in a prompt, hit Generate, and the site builds a spreadsheet from your instructions instead of making you lay out rows and columns by hand.

The homepage workflow is built around that single prompt box. Simple requests return quickly, while more complicated spreadsheet layouts can take up to a minute to finish generating.

Sign in and sign up run through the site's auth pages, so you need an account before you can use the generator. The product is aimed at anyone who wants spreadsheet output from plain-language directions rather than manual setup in Excel or Google Sheets.

Talk to Books was a Google Research experiment that let you ask natural-language questions and get answers pulled from passages across a large collection of books. You typed a question or statement, and the system returned relevant book excerpts instead of standard web search results. Google has shut the service down, but the site still hosts an archive of sample queries.

The project launched in 2018 as part of Google's Semantic Experiences initiative. It used neural language models for semantic matching and retrieval, showing how conversational queries could surface ideas buried in published books rather than blog posts or forums.

Researchers, students, and curious readers used Talk to Books to explore topics through book-length context. The experiment informed later semantic search features inside Google products such as Shopping, Maps, Gmail, and Hangouts.