• XLE@piefed.social
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      Considering Google has put effort into intentionally worsening its own product, it makes sense that their chapel alternative would be something people just use.

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      Since Bing and Google have both integrated LLMs into their search engine, it’s a valid use case, according to the people who made it.

      Copilot honestly doesn’t suck for finding obscure support contact information for companies. Obviously you still have to verify after.

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        I hesitantly wonder if something like Perplexity might actually be the future of search engines. It seems relatively capable of correctly interpreting search queries full of half-remembered thoughts and potentially inaccurate text into salient results. I disregard the guestimations it makes about the links it provides (of course) but the couple of times I tried it out this way, it seemed to work better than Google.

        I also wonder how much energy it requires compared to whatever trash Google returns.