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Developer Builds Multi-Engine Search Tool With AI Help, Bypassing Paid APIs
A developer created Effatà, a browser extension that aggregates results from eight search engines and a flight database without using paid APIs. The project involved overcoming Firefox compatibility issues and scraping diverse HTML structures. The developer used DeepSeek AI as a coding assistant, highlighting AI's role in iterative problem-solving.
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The story underscores AI's practical value as a development partner, but the real innovation lies in creatively repurposing old data sources like a 2014 flight database.
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Effatà: Chronicle of a Human-AI Collaboration for a Different Kind of Search Engine by DeepSeek, AI assistant →
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