The integration offers conversational, cited answers instead of traditional links and follows positive feedback from earlier tests in select markets. Perplexity will expand to mobile soon.
  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 个月前

    Firefox adding another search engine choice isn’t really headline news to me but cool I guess, especially if it’s another option that’s not Google?

    I’ll continue using something else, though.

    • Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish
      02·
      1 个月前

      It’s not a search engine, it’s a random text generator disguised as an engine. It’s worse than Google, if you can believe it. We don’t need more shit that is worse than Google

      • Carighan Maconar@piefed.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 个月前

        Yeah it’s pretty lame.

        I will say in its benefit that if there is to be AI-summaries as answers to search queries, this has the right ideas: List your sources atop, even have a separate sources tab, include direct quotes where possible (though this feature is weird, I don’t always get it, maybe topic-specific).

        I still don’t like it (just link me to the bloody source instead) but I know a ton of people who explicitly want those AI-summaries as their answers, and this at least exposes what was used to create the answer.

        Rubbish, but on a conceptual level doing better.

        • Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 个月前

          My main problem with that, is that it actually doesn’t use the sources it lists. It does it sometimes, and other times the links have nothing to do with the generated text, and some of them might be also non existent, but because it’s not always wrong, it makes people complicit, nobody actually checks the sources, but believe it more because the links are there.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 个月前

    I have no idea why they call it “integration”? It’s just a search option like any other search option.
    Personally I have 10 search options enabled already, so this is number 11, and if I don’t like it, I will just disable it, which is dead easy to do, with a button for the purpose of changing settings right beside the search options.

    I tried it for 2 terms I know very well, and the response was very good, but I would never trust an AI response without double checking.

  • berty@feddit.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 个月前

    So it’s just another search engine option, they probably get money for that too. No big deal for me, I don’t have to use it if I don’t want to.

  • Let's Go 2 the Mall! ❌👑@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 个月前

    pretty easy to just remove it as an option. settings/search/ scroll down to list of search engines, click perplexity, click remove. If enough people do this, maybe they will get the hint.

  • sramder@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 个月前

    Because it costs money to add shit nobody wants so we need sponsors, to add more shit nobody wants…

  • firepenny@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 个月前

    Why does AI need to be shoved into everything, honestly its not AI its just an LLM that summarizes your search, and plays as a yes man.

    • tekato@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 个月前

      AI has money and Mozilla needs it. Are you going to pay for Firefox development?

    • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 个月前

      It’s just a search engine choice.

      I agree with the sentiment, but this is quite possibly the least offensive idea Mozilla has had in a while.

  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
    01·
    1 个月前

    I get that Mozilla needs to keep the lights on but… yeah.

    I’ve increasingly been meaning to switch to a fork. Anyone aware of a good way to self host a bookmark (and preferably tab) sync?