“Intended” is a weird choice there. Certainly the people selling them are selling them as search engines, even though they aren’t one.
On DDG’s implementation, though, you’re just wrong. The search engine is still the search engine. They are using an LLM as a summary of the results. Which is also a bad implementation, because it will do a bad job at something you can do by just… looking down. But, crucially, the LLM is neither doing the searching nor generating the results themselves.
I had to tell DDG to not give me an AI summary of my search, so its clearly intended to be used as a search engine.
“Intended” is a weird choice there. Certainly the people selling them are selling them as search engines, even though they aren’t one.
On DDG’s implementation, though, you’re just wrong. The search engine is still the search engine. They are using an LLM as a summary of the results. Which is also a bad implementation, because it will do a bad job at something you can do by just… looking down. But, crucially, the LLM is neither doing the searching nor generating the results themselves.