Except chatgpt isn't really a google replacement. Not only is the information routinely outdated, people are starting to finally realize just how often it's either blatantly or subtly wrong.
Google is much better positioned to have AI enhanced search.
Google search is terrible. Chatgpt is definitively better for searching right now, and i often find myself reaching for it over google for a wide category of questions.
It's replaced Google for the "what's that called" tool.
Google used to be good at that task, but it's sucked for the last four years or so. Whenever they gave up on search and leaned into sludge content plus ads.
I've been using it for about 4 years now. Occasionally, I'll try Google when I'm having difficulty finding something with Bing. It's usually something where I have only a vague recollection of what I'm looking for and I'm starting by using search to find other keywords to eventually get to my true search terms. But it has yet to work out that Google has provided better results in those cases. Indeed, the results are often worse and I doubt I'd be able to make any progress with Google anymore.
And now, with ChatGPT integrated with Bing, I have found it makes very, very short work of those sorts of vague, barely remembered searches.
I don't know how you use search but even if ChatGPT is good, it can't replace Google for me because it serves a completely different purpose. I want links and pages, and being able to browse and read multiple sources, and find up-to-date information about what's happening in the world. ChatGPT can't give you any of that. And that's not a problem with ChatGPT; it was built for a very different use case.
Yeah, I agree. Google did a lot of work to make ChatGPT useful. It's clearly worse than it used to be.
I usually need someone to explain something to me. And I used Google before to land on a site where I could find the explanation (e.g. how to use a library). ChatGPT can explain most things I need and I can skip Google and the other sites. But it's indeed not a search engine, if you need factual information then your best bet is to find the documentations, articles, databases, etc.
I'm probably using Google less but just relying on ChatGPT is such a PITA with the hallucinations and how its reasoning just breaks down a few prompts in. It will "forget" instructions, mess up output formats, any facts have to be double-checked, etc. It barely worth the effort sometimes.
I dunno. ChatGPT is still ridiculously good as a search engine. Learning a new language now is a completely different experience for me. I've recently found myself putting something into Google, realising there is nothing of value in the first page if results and taking my question to ChatGPT instead. It's answers might not be correct, and man is it confident about things it just made up, but it is still a much better experience than clicking though ad laden blogspam, forums and question boards to find the same information.
This actually has made me less happy with chatgpt.
If I wanted to google something (or bing, whatever), I would have done that. A major draw for me has been that chatgpt was providing a much better experience than search engines.
I've been desperately unimpressed with ChatGPT in general. Everytime I ask it anything it just returns bland response containing factually incorrect information. The way it can retain context and good a conversion is impressive, but content wise I find it worthless - definitely no threat to a simple Google search.
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