alt Hacker News> It turns out that nearly every agentic session does a lot of web searching for looking up items
This is why Google will win the race over most of its competitors. They own search.
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Applejinx • yesterday at 11:35 PM
If they did I wouldn't have had to go to DDG. It's not like it's a big jump over what used to be. I left claw-marks in Google Search, if they drove me off they're in trouble, because I didn't want to accept reality for quite some time.
cmrdporcupine • today at 12:28 AM
Which race? As an information-providing "oracle" type model, maybe.
For practical agentic tasks? Not even close. Gemini is blatantly incompetent at tool use in an agentic harness. Even their own.
I wonder if this is an alternative (and better) revenue stream vs ads for search engines: Offer a competing web search for LLMs as an alternative to Google, and charge enterprises and LLM providers for it.
I know Brave do this already. Not sure about DDG (I wonder if their agreement with Bing would allow it?)