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[โ€“] extarion@lemmy.zip 54 points 2 days ago (20 children)

While I'm glad to see Qwant and Ecosia's progress, I have to say a search index "designed specifically for LLMs and generative AI agents" was not quite what I was hoping for when I saw this pop up.

[โ€“] pearcake@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, I was also under the impression that they will create proper search engine for regular users, the AI crap is cancer

[โ€“] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I was also under the impression that they will create proper search engine for regular users

It is a proper search engine for regular users

It will power regular search results:

Called European Search Perspective (EUSP), the JV now aims to serve around 50% of French queries and 33% of German queries by the end of the year.

And it also has an API ๐Ÿซจ that AI search engines can use

[โ€“] extarion@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

It might be a bit naive, but here's to hoping that it's just a stepping stone for a proper alternative search engine.

[โ€“] biofaust@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I bet that was the original plan, then they saw that the goal was nowhere near and decided to rebrand a subpar product "for AI".

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