Every single search provider mentioned includes AI as an option. Fortunately, they all gave an option to just turn it off. It’s annoying, but if they find that users want these AI summaries, they need to add them as an option to compete.
I wish more of them just had an option to highlight excerpts from pages or Wikipedia articles like google used to do exclusively. But I’m sure that harder to build :/
Unless something has changed, that chart is incorrect. I stopped using startpage earlier this year when they announced the inclusion of ai.
Every single search provider mentioned includes AI as an option. Fortunately, they all gave an option to just turn it off. It’s annoying, but if they find that users want these AI summaries, they need to add them as an option to compete.
Do users actually want such AI summaries? Is there any good polling on this?
I mostly read about people being annoyed by companies pushing hard for AI, and trying to get rid of those unrequested summaries.
I wish more of them just had an option to highlight excerpts from pages or Wikipedia articles like google used to do exclusively. But I’m sure that harder to build :/