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There's really only one alternative, Bing. Virtually all the other western search engines are using the Bing api, and just slightly modify the results.

Technically Yandex has it’s own index, although there’s debate on whether Eastern Europe counts as western in this context

I use Kagi ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Which uses Bing as its primary index

Source? I don't see any mention of that here: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...

Search "chili recipes" on bing. Now search kagi or any other alternative search engine. They all show the exact same recipes because they're using the bing API.

What would you recommend for billions of embeddings?


We've used Pinecone for a while (and it definitely "just worked" up to a certain point), but we're now actively exploring Google's Vertex Search as a potential alternative if some of the pain points can't be mitigated.


> Last year, Ford filed a patent for an in-car advertising system that would use the car’s speakers and display screen to serve ads to drivers and passengers

I've owned Ford stock for 10 years, I think I'll finally sell it today


Would you be willing to share more about how you guys did click ranking at Blekko? It's an interesting problem.


"The law banning TikTok, which was scheduled to go into effect Sunday, allows the president to grant a 90-day extension before the ban is enforced, provided certain criteria are met"

Sounds like they're operating within the law


From the ruling:

"The Act permits the President to grant a one-time extension of no more than 90 days with respect to the prohibitions’ 270-day effective date if the President makes certain certifications to Congress regarding progress toward a qualified divestiture."

Sounds like he needs to work with Congress on at least a basic level for this to be within the law, not just make his own decision and declare all is good. And there is the small detail that he is not President, at least not today.


TikTok has already received multiple "interest to acquire" letters, including the one from Perplexity that would keep all existing investors fully intact.

Having that along with a republican majority in both the congress and the senate this isn't going to be difficult for Trump to fulfill the requirements of the law.


That is not enough to satisfy all 3 certification requirements as required by this law.


Do you get the impression that the incoming administration cares about the law?

As long as there is a fig leaf/smokescreen, and TikTok makes the right noises and contributions, they’ll be fine.

If anything, Keeping them technically in violation of the law is the leverage the administration will want to keep so they can squeeze TikTok whenever they want.


The law never required that they shut down, so in a tautological sense they are.

However, with regards to the absurd justification. The president (still Biden) hasn't granted any extensions, nor is the president even able to grant an extension without

> certif[ing] to Congress that-

> "(A) a path to executing a qualified divestiture has been identified with respect to such application;

> "(B) evidence of significant progress toward executing such qualified divestiture has been produced with respect to such application; and

> "(C) there are in place the relevant binding legal agreements to enable execution of such qualified divestiture during the period of such extension.

There is no evidence that Trump will be able to lawfully do any of those, and he has to do all, after he becomes president again.


> "(A) a path to executing a qualified divestiture has been identified with respect to such application;

> There is no evidence that Trump will be able to lawfully do any of those once he becomes president,

He can buy or be gifted a partial ownership stake?


"Qualified divestiture" means "no longer being controlled by a foreign adversary."

Minority or even majority ownership change isn’t enough as long as the CCP still has control.


ByteDance has been rather vocal that they aren't interested in divesting like that. He could be, there is no evidence he will be, and it's not something he can cause to happen.


Isn't selective enforcement in general within any law in the United States? There are plenty of laws that get broken all the time and it's up to police & prosecutors/AGs to decide which cases they actually want to enforce.


He has to kinda gesture towards in-progress plans to comply with the law to grant that exception, but that's not a huge hurdle.


It's just scraping Google. The results are identical to Google's.


Most search engines use similar algorithms, so it's natural for the results to be somewhat similar. However, the key concern is whether they are prioritizing ads over content value, and as far as I’ve used lexy, they are doing pretty well, especially considering they are newly starting.


They're literally scraping Google on the backend and returning the results to the user as if they invented a new search engine. The links are exactly identical to Google's, in the same order.


obv they will be identical that is what i have explained you above main thing is providing what you want , eg if you search for dogs every search engine will show you a dog , you cant expect it to show extraketchup hotdog just because its new search engine


:) Lexy integrate Google


Looks like it just scrapes Google. Hacker news gets one of these every two weeks.


You are right! Google is one of Lexy's results providers.


From the Korean air incident: "As a result of the incident...President Ronald Reagan issued a directive making American satellite-based radio navigation Global Positioning System freely available for civilian use, once it was sufficiently developed, as a common good."


My bad couldn't find it. Mods you can delete this post.



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