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I honestly suspect antitrust is the reason Google hasn’t laid more fiber (not that antitrust is bad). They’re dangerously close to being broken up for so many other things adding this would be a very high risk gambit. Especially because ISPs are known for their shitty business practices and leveraging lawyers to maximum pain on any legitimate competition that threatens them.
Both can be bad.
It’s about content delivery, i.e. the CCP having direct control over what content (i.e. propaganda) is sent to Americans on the platform via their proprietary algorithm (with all the source code heavily guarded in mainland China).
Kagi is more of a private search company than an AI search company, but you need AI in your marketing to get funding these days.
They have done a pretty decent job of actually making useful applications of AI though; their summarizer tool is actually quite useful. It normally at least gets the jist of the page or YouTube video you’re looking at.
They also have taken steps to protect user privacy with their privacy pass extension … and they’ve announced a Linux port of Orion is on the way.
I’d feel much better if Orion was open source; but Kagi does seem to be taking their privacy commitments seriously.
Eh… Without examples, I don’t know that this is a good warning.
Everyone gets into different technologies at their own pace. Even if it does bite OP in some abstract way because they eventually get to some complex use case, that’s okay; it’s all a learning experience.
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