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A bit off-topic, but when I signed up for Kagi, I naturally became more aware of how many times I use search on the internet, since I didn't want to run into the limit for my tier.
I assumed I was a heavy search user, but now that I watch myself, I'm really surprised how little I actually search anymore. I thought it might be a hundred times a day. In reality, it's closer to four or five times a day.
I don't know if it's my changing habits; or the fact that much of the information on the internet has become siloed, so I know where to go without wandering around; or some other factor.
I was just really surprised.
I think most of us might be surprised too. Searching 'The Whole Internet' used to be so useful. Now, I know most of the names of the sites that might hold the answer to my question, since many sites are either gone or pivoted to intrusive ads and paywalls. So now, often I could just go to the right site directly. e.g. genius dot com, some specific vendor's website, justwatch dot com, etc. And on top of that, I know what questions AI will nail much better ("What's the episode of Friends where Joey is scared by a spider?"). And adding to all of that, the sheer degree of degradation the search engines' indexes have suffered. Google can tell you the right website for, say, the city government of Philadelphia. So it has some use. But if you search for most open-ended topics, you're just going to get 1000 AI-written content farm sites with nonsense domains.