Once its dialed in, its as good as Kagi. But I still haven't tried to integrate it into all my devices outside of my computer. I still need to try it with tailscale.

I also feel like a really good local LLM can be better. I'd love to get something set up where my searches get sent to the local LLM first, and then to Kagi\SearXNG if it needs more information.

Web scraping for LLMs has almost completely ruined the search experience. In the past I could search for simple questions, and quickly get an answer without even having to click through to the links.

This was horrible for web traffic, but the utility level was off the charts. It was possible to get accurate results in milliseconds. It was faster than using an LLM.

Now sites put almost no info in the search result headers, to get people to click through. I think this will work on some users, but most will start using LLMs as search by default.

Search engines have gotten so bad that I almost feel forced to try running SearXNG or some other search engine locally. Its a pain to set up, but degooglefication is always worth it.

Imagine if we had laws that required all LLM compute to come from solar, or other sustainable power sources. We could have used the market's thirst for AI as a backchannel way to force creation of new sustainable energy.

In contrast to Elon/XAI's illegal methane fuled datacenter in memphis

Some of those TerryB videos are crazy. I still remember one where they got on the highway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbCzWRnKCaI

Its like a motor bike, except it doesn't take you where you steer. It take you where it wants to take you.

If you tell it you want to go somewhere continents away, it will happily agree and drive you right into the ocean.

And this is before ads and other incentives make it worse.