> "like google, but a bit better"

For simple queries like “who was the president of country X in YYYY” it’s probably just a bit better (if cached, of course, Google search is wicked fast).

But for more complex queries, Google is still remarkably dumb. Or downright insolent, ignoring my verbatim selection or quoted terms.

I’d pay good money for scarily smart search and a “grep for the web” service, that included JSON, CSS, JavaScript, comments, whatever. A toggle button for dumb/smart search

I would easily pay money for something that is like Google, but a bit better.

google's majority revenue is from search. So bit better than google, particularly if it is integrated into bing (as microsoft has invested in openAI) , and allows bing to capture market share from google, would be really lucrative