The fact that GPT-4.1 was the judge does not convince of the validity of the bench.
It’s probably just that they started before gpt 5 was released. It’s a good judge.
The Parallel Search API
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#12Search accuracy, when used in the context of an agent, is so important because when you are delivered search results which are incorrect, the agent tends to interpret them as fact because they come from a "credible" source. So, this is very much an industry that still has plenty of room for improvement, and I'm excited to see how this product performs.
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#13I've been saying for quite some time now that AI is going to kill the traditional (free) search engine. This is just another nail in the coffin. When an AI searches google.com for you, the ads never get shown to the user. Search engines like kagi.com are the future. You'll give the AI your Kagi API key and that'll be it. You won't even need cloud-based AI for that kind of thing! Tiny, local models trained for perform…
> AI is going to kill the traditional (free) search engine
Yes, this has been issue for for many content creators. I predict that because of this, a lot of internet will get behind a paywall. I run one, so I hope the future is bright, but overall this is very bad for the internet because it was never intended to be used this way. Sure, it will be great for users to save unimaginable amount of time searching manually, but if websites lose traffic, well...that is the end of the internet as we know it.
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#14I've been saying for quite some time now that AI is going to kill the traditional (free) search engine. This is just another nail in the coffin. When an AI searches google.com for you, the ads never get shown to the user. Search engines like kagi.com are the future. You'll give the AI your Kagi API key and that'll be it. You won't even need cloud-based AI for that kind of thing! Tiny, local models trained for perform…
I fully agree, except that I think this will still be a very “power user” thing. Perhaps this is also what you mean because you reference Linux. But traditional search will be very important for a very long while, imo
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#16Interesting, but I'm not totally convinced that searching for LLMs is different than for us (humans). In the end, we both want to get information that's relevant to our query (intent). Besides, I wonder whether there will be able to convince big players like OpenAI to use them, instead of Google Search with its proven record :)
You're right, at the end the final end user is human.
The major difference is the how the data is structured for consumption.
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#17I've been saying for quite some time now that AI is going to kill the traditional (free) search engine. This is just another nail in the coffin. When an AI searches google.com for you, the ads never get shown to the user. Search engines like kagi.com are the future. You'll give the AI your Kagi API key and that'll be it. You won't even need cloud-based AI for that kind of thing! Tiny, local models trained for perform…
> AI is going to kill the traditional (free) search engine Yes, this has been issue for for many content creators. I predict that because of this, a lot of internet will get behind a paywall. I run one, so I hope the future is bright, but overall this is very bad for the internet because it was never intended to be used this way. Sure, it will be great for users to save unimaginable amount of time searching manually,…
> that is the end of the internet as we know it.
Eh. Some of us remember an internet before the free-with-advertising became the norm. In the 90s and early 2000s people were putting stuff online for free with no desire to monetise that content. And it was way more expensive back then to do so. Today you can host a personal blog for less than a coffee. I for one wouldn't mind going back to people sharing stuff for the fun of it, isntead of the myriad of content that's only there to promote/sell/advertise for this and that.
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#18I've been saying for quite some time now that AI is going to kill the traditional (free) search engine. This is just another nail in the coffin. When an AI searches google.com for you, the ads never get shown to the user. Search engines like kagi.com are the future. You'll give the AI your Kagi API key and that'll be it. You won't even need cloud-based AI for that kind of thing! Tiny, local models trained for perform…
> AI is going to kill the traditional (free) search engine Yes, this has been issue for for many content creators. I predict that because of this, a lot of internet will get behind a paywall. I run one, so I hope the future is bright, but overall this is very bad for the internet because it was never intended to be used this way. Sure, it will be great for users to save unimaginable amount of time searching manually,…
Inflation might help the situation; by making microtransactions a more realistic prospect. However, what would really help would be to end Visa, MasterCard, and American Express's monopoly on payments—where they extract at least $0.30 out of every transaction.
I used to work for the credit card industry like 15 years ago (damn, I feel old now). Back then, you know how much a credit card transaction actually cost (them)? $0.00001 (or something like that). That accounts for all the people they had working for them, the infrastructure, the servers, etc. It'd be even less today.
There's no reason for them to exist. The government should just setup a central bank transfer system with unlimited free transactions already. Or even better: Mandate that banks can't charge fees for transactions. Not to consumers or businesses! They already make enough money to more than make up for it (Source: I work for a bank and transaction fees are nothing but pure profit since there's basically zero cost associated with them).
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#19I like Parallel and been using it for tests but I am not sure about the terms.
> The materials displayed or performed or available on or through our website, including, but not limited to, text, graphics, data, articles, photos, images, illustrations and so forth (all of the foregoing, the “Content”) are protected by copyright and/or other intellectual property laws. You promise to abide by all copyright notices, trademark rules, information, and restrictions contained in any Content you access through our website, and you won’t use, copy, reproduce, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, upload, display, license, sell, commercialize or otherwise exploit for any purpose any Content not owned by you, (i) without the prior consent of the owner of that Content or (ii) in a way that violates someone else’s (including Parallel's) rights.
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#20I like Parallel and been using it for tests but I am not sure about the terms. > The materials displayed or performed or available on or through our website, including, but not limited to, text, graphics, data, articles, photos, images, illustrations and so forth (all of the foregoing, the “Content”) are protected by copyright and/or other intellectual property laws. You promise to abide by all copyright notices, tra…
IANAL but think this is to remind you that fragments of text it returns to you after pulling them from various sites in response to your query are protected by whatever copyright notices might be found on those websites. Seems reasonable to me.