I agree for the index, much less for the browser. I'm using Orion since a few months and beside some occasiona bugs I wouldn't ask anything more. If it was open source it would be perfect.

On the index side I agree, I think they are using other people indexes so far, I don't know if they are thinking about building one themselves.

Same for LLM, but I think that there the problem is even worse.

>how many global Web indices do you think exist?

Here's a list for the curious:

>A look at search engines with their own indexes

https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-...