Billions use search agents because search UX has long been broken
StefanoGogioso · x · 2026-08-18
Stefano Gogioso argues that the primary reason billions of people use agents for Web searches is that search UX has been inadequate for many years.
Most people actually want semantic search that quickly and effectively surfaces the information they seek, while the additional LLM features are largely optional.
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