[ExI] Is Web Search outdated now?

[Adrian Tymes]

I find Google searches to be more informative - and, more importantly,
accurate - than asking ChatGPT.  There's also the issue of availability of
recent information, which is frequently a concern for the topics I search
on.

It could theoretically someday be the case that AI searches become more
useful than manual Web searches.  That day, for me, is not today.

On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 6:19 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> BillK
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