How effective are popular college scholarship search engines at filtering out scam listings and providing legitimate funding opportunities
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The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.
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How effective are popular college scholarship search engines at filtering out scam listings and providing legitimate funding opportunities
2 real searches · 1 real-search pass
Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.
Query classes
Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.
ChatGPT real searches (2)
Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 2 of 2 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.
Searches and sources
ChatGPT2 real searches · gpt-6
Scholarship search engines scam screening policies Fastweb Scholarships.com BigFuture Going Merry official verification Google ↗
FTC scholarship scams warning never pay scholarship search service personal information Google ↗
- fastweb.com · fastweb.com
- fastweb.com · fastweb.com
- Scholarship Search · privacy.collegeboard.org
- What types of organizations can send me information if I opt in to Student Search? – BigFuture · bigfuture.collegeboard.org
- How To Avoid Scholarship and Financial Aid Scams · consumer.ftc.gov
- Office of Financial Aid · usf.edu
- Searching for College Money? · ftc.gov
- Scholarship Scams · oig.ed.gov
- Federal Student Aid · studentaid.gov
- College Board BigFuture · bigfuture.collegeboard.org
- Fastweb · fastweb.com
- Scholarships.com · scholarships.com
- Scholarship America · scholarshipamerica.org
Queries
2 queries · click a column to sort
| Query / type | Search | Intent | Query class | Routing format | Cluster | Freq ↓ | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Scholarship search engines scam screening policies Fastweb Scholarships.com BigFuture Going Merry official verification OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Other / navigational | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
FTC scholarship scams warning never pay scholarship search service personal information OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Other / navigational | — | — | 1x of 1 |