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Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

591 points · 207 comments · vertigoruntime

  1. mixcocam · · focus · HN ↗
    Would be very cool if you could type a long query and the model would just build an advanced google search query using what you typed. You could even ship a tiny model in the browser itself that does that.

    Something like: "blog posts which talk about using sending emails to yourself as a notes taking mechanism".

    The output could look like: "note taking" OR "notes" ("emailing yourself" OR "email to myself" OR "email yourself") (inurl:blog OR inurl:posts OR site:medium.com OR site:substack.com)

    1. amelius · · focus · HN ↗
      It wouldn't be cool because it would still hand your data to Google.
      1. _flux · · focus · HN ↗
        I assume Google was just a placeholder for a search engine in the example. And you'll surely need some service to search the web.
        1. amelius · · focus · HN ↗
          It could anonymize the data, at least.
        2. duskdozer · · focus · HN ↗
          I don't know about that. When I hear people reference "Google" it seems to me they do mean Google. Similar with "Claude".
          1. Forgeties79 · · focus · HN ↗
            People still use “Google” as a synonym for “online search.”
            1. duskdozer · · focus · HN ↗
              Yes, and IME it also is true that "online search" means in fact google.com. And there's no distinction for search results and reading the google AI summary.
          2. bee_rider · · focus · HN ↗
            We’ve got the whole post to parse, though.

            The idea is obviously applicable to other search engines.

    2. layer8 · · focus · HN ↗
      That’s a great idea, and would be a much better feature than the unimaginative things Mozilla has been implementing. It’s so disappointing.
    3. Vinnl · · focus · HN ↗
      I think that's roughly what duck.ai is doing? If I type that in there I see it generating some search queries and then generating a list of links based on the different result pages.
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    5. pessimizer · · focus · HN ↗
      There's no such thing as an advanced google search query anymore. The second will give you worse results than the first (without quotes.)
      1. ANighRaisin · · focus · HN ↗
        Well, it would be helpful for scholarly articles.
      2. negura · · focus · HN ↗
        There is. By default it tries to obey your query. But if that query returns no results, only then it makes a best-effort attempt to return something vaguely related.
    6. vvpan · · focus · HN ↗
      I feel like much of what Perplexity does can be accomplished that way.
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