Graham Sutherland / Polynomial on Nostr: TL;DR yes they still exist, they use Bing as a backend now, they seem to do a decent ...
TL;DR yes they still exist, they use Bing as a backend now, they seem to do a decent job of stripping out Bing's LLM summaries and replacing them with actual page text, and all they do is search, no upsell value-add KPI-farming nonsense. which in 2025 has somehow become practically unobtainium.
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