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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I see, you're splitting the UI from the backend as two different things, and Im seeing them as parts to a whole.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, yeah, there are multiple things feeding into the results page they generate for you. Not just two. There's the search results, there's an algorithmic widget that shows different things (so a calculator if you input some math, a translation box if you input a translation request, a summary of Wikipedia or IMDB if you search for a movie or a performer, that type of thing). And there is a pop-up window with an LLM-generated summary of the search results now.

Those are all different pieces. Your search resutls for "3 divided by 7" aren't different because they also pop up a calculator for you at the top of the page.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Yeah, for some reason I was thinking you were trying to say that bolting on widgets made it no longer a search engine.