Opyt vs web search

Web search finds what the internet says. Opyt finds what the people you chose said, and knows you chose them.

The most common objection deserves a straight answer: for anything outside your corpus, web search wins, cheaply, and Opyt is not a replacement.

What a web index cannot do is tell you what you have been reading. It does not know whose take on a topic you already endorsed, cannot see X reliably, cannot see your Substack subscriptions at all, and ranks by what is popular, with no idea what you endorsed. Real agents need both, and they answer different questions.

At a glance

Where web search is better

• Anything you have never touched. A new topic, an unfamiliar company, today's news.
• Coverage. The whole public web against 2,830 documents.
• It needs no setup and no history to be useful on day one.
• Freshness measured in minutes.

Where Opyt is better

• The population is yours, so the answer comes out of your judgment instead of the crowd's.
• Every hit carries who said it, when, and a live URL from someone you confirmed.
• It answers retrospective questions about your own attention that no web index can.
• A per-query cost of about $0.000001, for the one embedding call, and a ranking you can inspect: BM25 plus cosine over 8,095 stored vectors in a 229 ms local scan.

Which one

Use whichever the question calls for. Web search covers the world, and Opyt covers the part of it you already chose.

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