Anthropic use Brave but they were very resistant to openly stating that, I had to dig though their sub-processors to confirm it
@simonw
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OpenAI and Anthropic Secrecy About Search Index Sources
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It's wild to me how secretive OpenAI and Anthropic are about which search index they're using – it's such important information to help evaluate how trustworthy their results are
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Search Engine Shift: Microsoft’s AI Moving Away from Bing?
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I've been keeping an eye out for news that they've moved away from Bing and haven't seen any yet – but I'm not confident, especially since there was an experiment recently that hinted at some Google (not sure if it holds up tho)
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AI Transparency: The Case for Showing Search Processes
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Looks like it commits the same sin as Gemini though: it doesn't show me what searches it ran, which makes it really hard to evaluate if it's being tasteful in what it searches for or not I trust AI systems more if they are more transparent about what they're doing
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AI Mode Delivers Exceptional Speed and Test Results
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… but wow, a few of my unpublished test prompts got great results and the speed is exceptional! I gotta admit I hadn't spent much time with this because the name "AI mode" failed to capture my attention at all! I assumed it was just a rebrand of those terrible AI overviews
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Default AI Experience Research Without Custom Instructions Memory
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I deliberately don't use custom instructions or memory because I want to get the "default" experience for my research into what it can do
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GPT-5 with Bing Search: The New Search Engine Standard
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For nearly three years the advice to "never use ChatGPT for search" has been sensible and justified… we need to retire that now GPT-5 with Bing search is a spectacularly useful search engine
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Maximizing GPT-5 Search: Tips and Best Practices
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Here's my article, which also includes tips on getting the most out of GPT-5 search
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GPT-5 Thinking Research Goblin Demonstrates Powerful Search Capabilities
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I wrote about how shockingly effective GPT-5 Thinking is at using its Bing-backed search tool, illustrated with 8 examples from the last 48 hours I've started calling it my Research Goblin
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Semantic Image Search via Text Embeddings and Vision-LLM
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Semantic image search using text embeddings against vision-LLM summaries of images sounds like it works really well