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How I search in 2024
We are now in a very weird liminal space in information retrieval for consumers, particularly those attuned to trends in search and working on the bleeding...
On the other hand, we have the meteoric rise of these weird LLM things, which are really just statistical text generators but that people are using for information retrieval through paradigms like RAG which are a little like using a hammer to go fishing. On the third hand (a very apt metaphor for generative art), on the heels of the large companies of the last 15 years declining, we have a new indie search engine scene emerging, hungry, armed with AI tooling, and ready to take back quality on the web. They’ve had some controversy lately, among other things, for their very varied product sprawl, but the search results are so very good, the business model is really pro-user and I can’t see myself going back to Google unless something very bad happens (please stick around, Kagi.)
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