Happy New Year!
I recently moved to the wonderful Abbey Buildings in Spalding where I am mostly working from home for the IT company Decision Focus which I joined 3 1/2 years ago.
I spent some of my holiday creating a little website about the historical building, whose history can be traced back almost 1000 years.
This place is steeped in history, with whispers of the past echoing through its ancient walls. I’m practically living in a museum! (But with Wi-Fi, thankfully.)
The sentence above was generated by Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro with a prompt asking it to be playful, as I hope you could notice. Here’s the rest from Gemini:
Speaking of history, I’ve been bitten by the local history bug! When I discovered that “abbeybuildings.co.uk” was up for grabs, I couldn’t resist. So, I’ve spent my holiday creating a little website dedicated to this incredible place. Turns out, these walls have seen nearly 1000 years of history unfold. Can you imagine the stories they could tell? And when I’m not lost in the mists of time, I’m working remotely for Decision Focus, an IT company I joined 3 and a half years ago. It’s the perfect blend of old-world charm and modern-day convenience. Who needs a time machine when you can live in the Abbey Buildings?
Personally, I think it is a bit too much and a bit too playful, but maybe you like it?
Anyway, I used Gemini 1.5 Pro’s new Deep Research feature to do research on the Abbey Buildings in Spalding and that result was not bad at all. You can read the result of that Deep Research report in the section Abbey Buildings History (I didn’t prompt it to be playful!)
The funny part is that when I ask Deep Research to make a summary of the Abbey Buildings History it starts to research websites about Abbingdon Abbey Buildings which is not the Abbey Buildings in Spalding 🙂
When I point that out, Gemini apologises and asks if it should try to summarise from Abbey Buildings History again. I say yes (and please), but Gemini Deep Research is again starting researching Abbingdon Abbey Buildings.
I wonder if Google is using its page ranking to select which sites to use for research? As my abbeybuldings.co.uk was just created, it is disregarded as source and Deep Research goes looking for some other sites about abbey buildings?
