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Existing popular search engines (Google, Bing) are sort of bad. Almost nobody is trying to fix this. [[https://exa.ai/|Exa]] is, but appears to have pivoted toward [[LLM agent]] systems, where they do not have an obvious comparative advantage, and make odd technical decisions such as using IVF/PQ (see [[Vector Indexing]]), apparently hosting things on AWS, and running off disk rather than out of RAM (limiting query throughput: see https://x.com/exaailabs/status/1859690195463045630).
Existing popular search engines (Google, Bing) are sort of bad. Almost nobody is trying to fix this. [[https://exa.ai/|Exa]] is, but appears to have pivoted toward [[LLM agent]] systems, where they do not have an obvious comparative advantage, and make odd technical decisions such as using IVF/PQ (see [[Vector Indexing]]), apparently hosting things on AWS, and running off disk rather than out of RAM (limiting query throughput: see https://x.com/exaailabs/status/1859690195463045630) (disk is fine with good algorithms but IVF/PQ isn't that).
= What should a search engine do?