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It sucks as a search engine. When I'm searching for something, I want factual, correct results, not a hallucinated answer which is backed up by none of its sources.
When I click through search results, I'm reading, evaluating the sources, and synthesizing the information into something which I am reasonably satisfied is true enough. I don't feel comfortable handing that cognitive task off to a machine. The machine's job is to help me find the sources, not tell me what the truth is.
Having a machine that tells you what is true is the most dystopian shit ever, and it would've sounded completely insane only 5 years ago.
You seem to be describing an answer engine, which isn't what I said. It's really no worse than the last five or so years of Google if you just want links to a topic that you can go and read yourself. It's fine at that, it's not good.
Yeah, I was talking about the Gemini blurb at the top of Google search results.
To be fair, Gemini is one of the lowest quality pieces of s*** we have. Google also basically gives it no time to do the job.
They're not magic machines. They take actual f****** time to do something. So of course it's going to s*** out worthless garbage if you don't give it enough information to make something good and no time to do anything.
Trying to say that AI is a bad search engine based off Gemini. Is like saying that an artist who is never picked up a pen and paper is worse than someone who's been doing it for 40 years. Therefore all artists are bad.
It's f****** nonsensical and ignores the entire actual context of what's happening.
It takes work to turn them into useful search engines. Set up librewolf. Drop in at least a search and a fetch agent. Wrap it in a some prompts to make sure you get actual links.
On my extremely non-scientific scale I'd rate that setup somewhere between barebones Kagi and pre-enshitified Google in terms of results.
I'm hopeful that an actual agent framework will do a better job that's significantly more work. If you just log onto a SaaS LLM you'll get very unpredictable search results.