[mxmlnkn]

AI-overview was the straw that broke the camel's back for me recently. But I also suffered from dark mode issues for a long time. On almost every visit, it shows the outer background dark but the smaller search results background as white, and the search result text is still in light mode, ergo, it is not readable. After refreshing, it works, but this user experience is untenable for a trillion-dollar company. I changed to Startpage.com, though.

[mjlee]

When you do want an AI overview you can have Kagi do that by adding a ? at the end of your query. It flows nicely for me as the difference between searching for something, or just asking the internet a question. Kagi cites sources and allows you to move the conversation to a new LLM session.

[VHRanger]

you can also just go straight to the assistant from the query with !ai -- it'll power the answer directly with your default assistant model

[glenstein]

I don't mind it necessarily, as I use it all the time in place of Googling, so you would think that folding it into search would work well.

But it doesn't, at least not for me. But I think that's tied to poor implementation, design, and being a solution looking for a problem rather than a philosophical issue with using AI to improve search experience.