knowledge cards at the top of Google results have been around for at least 12 years, I'd interpret the LLM-based responses as an iteration of a feature that's been around for a while rather than mimicking a competitor.

> At the least it can be inferred that Google has fundamentally changed their main product to mimic a competitor, which is something you just don’t do if everything’s OK.

I mean, the big thing that has changed is that investors are all in on AI, and Google looked like they were behind in this area, so they put it front and center so that they can talk nonsense about it on investor calls.

For a brief overview on a topic the accuracy is good enough. It might get some minor details wrong but they are generally superfluous to the topic, it typically breaks down when you are really getting into the weeds of a topic, or really niche subjects, at which point you have exceeded the utility of the LLMs. I have read many blog posts linked off 1st ranking position google queries in the past and found their answers to have inaccuracies as well, how is that better?

The taxi market is still pretty fragmented. Markets evolve in different ways depending on the nature of the goods and services being exchanged and the environment in which they operate.

Which is one reason why robust antitrust enforcement is necessary, yet most of the antitrust laws on the books have barely been enforced since the late 70s.

Over here, I'd say minicar or maxicar

> Kagi gets talked about on here constantly, and it's not even on the list (though I suspect there's a reason?)

Not that I'd expect them high up on the list, but Kagi sends the following response header:

    Referrer-Policy: same-origin

I’d argue that HN sentiment is a leading indicator, not a claim of current reality.

Compared to a year ago, Google has declined from 89.487% to 88.915%. Just half a percent, but IMO it will accelerate.

Meanwhile OpenAI has gone from 0.194% to 0.226% in just three months (they weren’t on previous quarter’s reports).

Sure, it’ll be years before Google drops to 50%. But it will happen.

Google spends something around 30 billion dollars a year to be the default search engine across many platforms. You can spend the same amount and tomorrow your search engine will have 88.9% of searches.

It's not a charity, if people truly preferred Google results over defaults, Google wouldn't give out tens of billions of dollars to be the default.

> Kagi gets talked about on here constantly, and it's not even on the list (though I suspect there's a reason?)

Being at least 10€/month for the only "useful" tier is a powerful reason for that...

Maybe also Kagi being a metasearch engine reduces its visibility? Just speculating, I obviously don't know how it really works.

> Every post about Google for years has been people saying it's terrible and dead.

They are terrible, but that doesn't mean anybody else is good or better. And being better at search isn't enough anyway [1]. Also, when you give Google less of your searches, personalization drops off and it gets even worse, but most people give all their searches to google so they see the benefit of personalization if they compare.

[1] When Yahoo did user research on search, one of their findings was that if you asked users which results were better, there was a strong and consistent preference towards results that were shown as Google results, regardless of the actual results. It's been forever since I saw those reports, so I don't remember the numbers, and the numbers are likely different today anyway, but that's a huge barrier to adoption that you have to manage.

Is it a though? Just bc 99% of population don’t notice or care about misinformation, does it mean the majority consensus is right?

Which do you think is more abundant, lies or truths?

There are zero Asian countries on this besides Russia and India. Thereby missing about 2 billion internet users

Pretty sure Google is the market leader is Japan. By far.

Depends on the questions.

If a technical problem, before my questions were leading either to official doc or stackoverflow, now I get possible solutions to try

Other types of questions like reviews, product comparisons GPT shows couple of relevant links to reddit and I go check them to see if summary was right and then surf relevant subreddit.

If I assign a number, I would say 80% of my requests lead to answers inside the GPT, other 20% lead to links

But they provide sources/links, which I click occasionally and they have utm source with chatgpt

What search engines don't send referrer headers?