Ulrich

AI search is useless for the same reason search engines are useless. But at least search engines force you to look at the source information and the context around it. So AI search is even more useless.

Making a better search engine solves nothing. There are several dozen of them already but Google remains on the top for a variety of reasons, including continued anticompetitive behavior and overwhelming consumer apathy. Most of the other ones aren’t sustainable without using the same shady advertising Google is using. Kagi being the exception. Mozilla could definitely offer a similar paid solution.

I understand the existential pressure Mozilla faces. Their lunch is being eaten by AI browsers

Is there any data to back this up? Last I checked Firefox was still the 3rd most used browser, by a wide margin.

Their statement is “we’re incorporating AI into your browser”. What “agenda” do you think this author has? Other than informing users?

Mozilla already has limited resources. Using them to incorporate features into their browsers that their users have already made it abundantly clear they do not want, is bad.

Vivaldi is like the only tech company in the world that has come out and stated definitively “we will not use AI”.

Can you just skip the clickbait and post the answer