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i maintain that duckduckgo are the only ones who half-decent setup for it with their AI overview: instead of hoping to god the LLM can recite information accurately from its memory, they just have a list of vetted sources (e.g. wikipedia) that they pull a couple relevant articles from and have the LLM summarize to answer your query.
E.g. if you search "when was america founded" it pulls from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States and https://history.state.gov/milestones/1776-1783/declaration, producing the answer "America is generally considered to have been founded on July 4, 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was adopted, officially declaring the Thirteen Colonies' independence from Great Britain. The name "United States of America" was formally adopted by Congress on September 9, 1776.", and then whenever someone searches that query again they just re-use the already generated answer.
And even better, if it's a real simple query like pure maths or some simple information available on wikidata (like the diameter of the moon) it skips the LLM alltogether because all it would do is waste electricity and introduce the risk of an incorrect answer.
and when it does show an AI answer they make it very clear that it might be inaccurate, you're asked to rate if the answer is helpful, and you can easily adjust how often you want to see the AI answers.