Rob Napier‘s short anecdote intrigued me, and I was curious if anything has changed in the fourteen months since. After all, that’s supposed to be eons in “AI” terms, right? Spoiler: not much has changed. Kagi does a bit better, but Bing is still the best, Google still sucks, and ChatGPT (when considering Bing Copilot… Read more
Tonight I decided to give Kagi a try, after hearing John Gruber mention it a few times on Daring Fireball. I’ve used a mix of DuckDuckGo and Bing for over a decade now, and occasionally will still try Google in desperation. What I’ve noticed is a decade-long trend – accelerating in the last year or… Read more
This was a pleasant surprise: I’m not sure how useful it is, since I don’t typically turn to a search engine to run random Swift code, but hey, kudos for effort.
Did I stutter? But incidentally, this reveals that – shock horror – I use Bing. I actually use it by default on all my own devices. Why is this so, when I work at Google? Well, first, I don’t work on Search, so I have no particular vested interest in it. Second, after I joined… Read more