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I've been just considering signing up last week, and this blog post has tipped me into pulling the trigger. I am worried though, due to their high query cost,

I've been just considering signing up last week, and this blog post has tipped me into pulling the trigger. I am worried though, due to their high query cost, are they doing the full pipeline with external sources for simple queries too? Like I am accustomed to using google instead of my brain for literally the tiniest and pettiest of things, from just googling website name just to open it, spell check, conversion of anything into anything etcetcetc.

Melatonic 4y ago
They have a simplistic answers AI that will answer some stuff (like if it can pull direct from Wikipedia or if you were to for example use Google as a simple calculator) that supposedly helps them reduce these costs. I am not affiliated and I am not directly involved but this was my first concern as well - because I am used to search engines being "free" I use them all the time for everything. I know most casual users are even worse - I hardly know anyone who types in an actual URL into the address bar even if they know exactly where they want to go and what the URL is (for example I type in "mail.google.com" when I want to go to my email but most would just search "gmail" into google)