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I don’t care about LLM welfare, but I do mind needlessly wasting energy like this.

Ah, right. It’s still tagged as beta, maybe that’s why it doesn’t appear in other places (like in the news article on their site).

Thanks for the tip.

Edit: direct link to said beta version.

Could be, but consider even the simplest example: being logged in, searching for something, then with the same browser, same everything, you log out and repeat the search: you will most likely get slightly different results. That might overlap with what you described as well.

I don’t know, could be. I just tried downloading and I’m getting the 1.x version too.

… and are probably already happy with the factory installed apps.

Could be a gradual rollout.

Edit: saw it’s actually still a beta (and probably this is why it doesn’t show), here’s a link for the APK: https://f-droid.org/repo/org.fdroid.fdroid_2000050.apk

There’s also the profiling - serving different results depending on whether you’re logged in or not.

Yeah, in the end it depends on the use case. Some things are a simple search away, others need compiling of information (manually or with the help of an LLM).

LLMs have saved internet searching. For the first time in years, i am getting (usually) relevant information for my questions.

I tend to disagree on that part. LLMs in a web search should be opt in, not opt out. They do help, but not always. For many searches that I have the answer right in the first result (sometimes even in its preview along the link) there’s an LLM running and needlessly wasting resources, summarising very often what I already know.

I missed the old Google maybe 15 years ago when I switched away from it as a default search. It’s not the AI.