[fnord77]

Just like opensource search engines killed google

oh wait

[blanched]

I don’t even know the names of any open source search engines, but the open source models perform decently on various benchmarks and in personal experience.

Was it ever even a claim that open source search engines were trying to outperform google, let alone kill it?

[fnord77]

Apache Solr / Lucene

Elasticsearch

Just like most people use Facebook or Insta for personal webpages instead of rolling their own, most people will use commercial AI forever.

[blanched]

The distance between DeepSeek and Claude is far, far less than the distance between Google Search and any of those.

[wongarsu]

Yacy tried in the 2000s. I'm sure some magazines made headlines posing the question whether yacy is a google-killer

[inigyou]

Marginalia already gives me better results for many queries than Google. Because Google has sunk so low.