Jon S. von Tetzchner
I have been working with Web technologies since 1992. I have co-founded two browser companies, Opera Software and Vivaldi Technologies. I was CEO at Opera and I am CEO at Vivaldi.
I am a strong proponent of open standards. I believe in building feature rich products that can be adapted to the needs of users without collecting information about usage. I believe no company has the right to profile their users.
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@[email protected] , no, I do not think so. I think there is a lot of search engines out there and it is a lot of work to build one.
@[email protected] , for me, the most visible parts when it comes to AI is the box at the top, where some answer is selected to be the best answer. This often gives a bad or inaccurate answer.
In addition to that are actual search results, that are AI generated. Often I will have to go down the list of search results to find what I was looking for. The AI generated results are pushing what I am looking for down on the list. Part of the issue is also that search engines are giving regency a big priority, which means that more static content will just disappear.
@[email protected] , I think it is hard to do really. Unless you can recognize AI and other SEO generated stuff. If there is more of that, the results are, IMHO, objectively worse. Most of the time one is not interested in AI stuff, but rather information from the source. Anything else is, objectively, worse.
@[email protected] , a poll is actually for the purpose of asking people what they think. That is what I am interested in.
I do think AI has made results a lot worse. Partially because of the summaries and partially because there is a lot of AI generated content early in the results. I am finding it harder to find stuff I am looking for, that I know is there.
@[email protected] , we all evaluate based on our own experience. You may or may not agree with what other people are seeing, but that is what they are seeing.
In my case, I have been on the Internet since the start of the Web and IMHO there has been a clear change.
@[email protected] , I think most would expect that if there is a framed answer, that it would be the best one…
@[email protected] , I guess both. I have really bad experiences with the summaries myself.
My experience is that the summary is wrong or not accurate more often that not and clearly not the best answer. I have learned that trusting it for even the most basic of answers, such as which terminal a flight leaves from, to not be trustworthy.
@[email protected] , this is just the beginning. Make sure to share those ideas with us and we will see what we can do. :)
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We have created a Flatpak for Linux already. It is currently experimental, but it is there.
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You will see browsers in most all cars in a few years.
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I do hope you do not browse on your phone while driving… Not a good idea.
Sometimes we spend time in the car while it is stationary. Having a browser on the big screen is pretty nice then, IMHO.
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We will evaluate moving forward.
The reason why the numbers do not add up to 100 is that you can specify more than one OS. Most will likely run 2, one for their computer and one for their mobile. Some mention that they run more than that. It is also interesting to see how many run things that are not listed.
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Thanks for supporting us. Most of the payment for merch goes to pay for the merch. Not much comes to us for that, but we are clearly very happy that you use our merch!
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Ideally we would have liked to build our own core, but having done that before, we knew that would not be viable.
So we were left with basically two choices and the safest bet was Chromium. We feel this is a strong codebase and having had to deal with compatibility issues in the past, we feel this was the best choice we could make.
We do a lot of work to make this Chromium based release as strong as possible. We have features not found in any other browser and we have more settings and flexibility than any other browser. We do listen as well.
Thanks for your support.
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There is a longer answer to that, but I would think that getting what you are looking for would be that.
I remember the time when Google entered the search market. At the time, some of the leading search engines listed results based on who paid most. Google changed that, but we are in some ways back to where we started?