[ExI] Is Web Search outdated now?

[BillK]

Since Google appeared many years ago, whenever any question arose, the
response was "Just Google it".
A search typically produced many (perhaps hundreds) of web search
results which had to be read to find the answer. If you were lucky the
answer was near the start of the list.

Now AI has enhanced search engines (including Google with Bard) to use
AI to generate an answer to the query immediately.
Usually attaching the list of search results as well, so that you can check
the results.

This was just demonstrated by Spike's query about plastic water bottle
shrinkage.
The AI enhanced search produced the answer immediately.

You can check it for yourself.
Copy and paste the query:
Why do sealed plastic water bottles lose water and shrink over time?

There are now many AI search engines. A few are:
<https://bard.google.com/>
<https://you.com/>
<https://iask.ai/>

Microsoft Bing AI search insists that you use the MS Edge browser.
AI is not yet available on Startpage and DuckDuckGo.

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