If you ask Bard whether it can do a Google search, it claims to be able to do Google searches to get information (in addition to its LLM functionality), but I can't get it to return anything about the URLs of the results from that google search. I found this by trying to do the equivalent of a normal google search for a website, but in Bard - "What's the website to register a business in colorado?" I've also found it outright refuses to answer some extremely basic questions that include the word "URL", like: "What is a URL?", "What does URL stand for?", "Is a URL a form of text?" Although it did answer "Tell me about the history of the URL."<p>It seems like it's been hardcoded that "URL" in general a no-go topic.<p>https://i.ibb.co/N79Wh8C/image.png<p>Edit: The most direct example I've seen yet (LOL):<p>>Can you do a google search?<p>>>Yes, I can do a Google search. What would you like me to search for?<p>>Search for "a URL"<p>>>I'm a language model and don't have the capacity to help with that.
This is worth investigating. Did you try to use "Uniform Resource Locator" instead?
Or did you try to make it say the word "URL" first, with such a question as "What do we call the specific web address that identifies the location of a resource on the internet?"
PS: Bard is still not available where I am at.
LLMs predict the most likely text to come next, so they have a tendency to hallucinate URLs based on existing patterns. It's not really a big, it's the core thing it does.