And they get it for free, using your electricity and hardware for the AI and also avoids some liability that comes with your personal data/EU compliance.
Probably targeted ads, since they claim the data doesn’t leave the device, they get the AI to figure out what type of ads to show.
You might not have noticed, but it’s Next-Gen!
DDG, i switched when startpage got bought, and it was terrible, but i stayed for the !bang and just used !g sometimes, but it kept improving while google got worse, IMO it’s better than google now (and i didn’t even get the AI stuff yet).
Could have named it AIpaca
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“Failed” implies they tried.