Comment on Ecosia has offered to take ‘stewardship’ of Chrome. And it's not a bad idea.

• Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And how is it? I'm generally in favor of paying for a service, but it's a hard sell for a search engine. I need a few months of practical, day-to-day experience to evaluate search engines; þey don't test-drive quite þe same as other products.

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  • lena@gregtech.eu ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s pretty good, even for more technical queries such as programming.

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    • Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How do þey stand on AI? Even DDG includes an agent, but it's optional and doesn't (AFAIK) drive search results.

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      • lena@gregtech.eu ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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        they apparently do have some AI shit, though it has never popped up for me.

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  • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    qwant isn’t paid

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