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Too bad Kagi is also investing in LLMs.
by novemp 3y ago
Too bad Kagi is also investing in LLMs.
- digging 3y agoWhy is that bad?
- rchaud 3y agoBecause Kagi is doing what Google was in 2008; taking a query and returning links as results. Indexing the web doesn't need an LLM. Google needs an LLM because they have a business need to answer the question for you, thus keeping you on Google.
- digging 3y agoIt's not the same. Kagi is trying out multiple products including ones that depend on LLMs (eg. a summarizer). But they're not changing the core web search product by inserting these alternate features. If they do, I'll cancel my subscription and I think others will, too. Since Kagi is supported by user subscriptions instead of ads, they'll have to pay attention to that or collapse.
- xwiz 3y agoI don't think the issue is LLMs inherently, it's the misapplication. Kagi has siloed the LLM content into the 'Quick Answer' and 'Assistant' sections, and it generates on the fly from search results. (Plus, the 'Expert' LLM cites the references it used.) I think the issue will come when there isn't a clear delineation between real and artificial text, or when artificial text is presented more prominently than real text, as in the article.
- nunez 3y agoThey are, but you don't have to use those features. I think you can disable the summarizer as well. To wit, the few queries I've thrown at !fast were pretty inaccurate.