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> I'm currently paying something close to $200 a month for search products/ai products because all of the ones on the market have issues and google is borderlin
by krainboltgreene 2y ago
> I'm currently paying something close to $200 a month for search products/ai products because all of the ones on the market have issues and google is borderline unusable. ... I'd be happy paying that much going forward indefinitely if I don't have to deal with adds.
As someone who has been using google as a working tech person for like the last 18 years this is so insane to read. I've had one or two times where searches were filled with some annoying content, but I've never said "I would like to pay for better results" much less $200.
I would love to watch you use google just to see what's going on that's so bad.
- llm_trw 2y agoI get paid $300 an hour. If one of those services saves me an hour a month it pays for itself. I would like a better search engine with a better model on top of it obviously but this is good enough for now.
- nextworddev 2y agoAuthor here. Which products are you currently subscribing to?
- llm_trw 2y agoPerplexity, phind, kagi, openai, anthropic, open AI, cohere, a couple of services which let you run other models online, throw in the api calls I use so I don't leave Emacs when writing, it adds up to little over $200 per month. I also have a 4x4090 rig for local inference when I need to do work offline or overnight, e.g. llama3 70b is amazing at converting old docs into valid json for the cost of keeping my office warm. But local models without websearch are pretty useless for the more creative work I do.
- krainboltgreene 2y agoLike I said, I would absolutely love to shadow you while you search, because what you're describing just isn't happening to me.