ChatGPT vs Google Search
Users debate whether ChatGPT can replace or outperform Google Search for queries, praising its direct answers and follow-ups while criticizing hallucinations, lack of recency, and Google's declining quality.
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ChatGPT doesn't replace Google but it does multiple orders of magnitude better for questions that a lot of users rely on Google to answer.
Horrific take, google search is already bad enough. Defaulting to chatgpt style would make it useless. GPT is not a search engine.
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.Now it sometimes feels like a fancy lmgtfy.
ChatGPT is a chatbot, not Google. It just produces answers that are plausible-sounding. ChatGPT is not doing any searches or data lookups for you in the background. Unfortunately, you may have learned total garbage.
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.
Not a search engine but pretty often I will ask GPT-3 a question now if it's not easily googled. Often gives the initial context to Google follow up questions.
I can't even augment ChatGPT with Google results, how can it be a replacement for Google?
I have consistently been helped by ChatGPT every time Google has failed me. As a search engine it's really good. Only failing is re new data
The thing is, chatGPT seems to be already capable to perform Google's function reasonably well.If you ask for the top websites about [topic], it will output a shortlist of web links each with a description of the website.You can narrow down, ask for a specific number of links, ask to exclude videos or specific websites from the results...etc.If there was a chatGPT service with UI/speed/availability/up-to-date database of Google (a 2-months-old technology vs. a 25-yea
What on earth are people still searching for using search engines? I’ve found chatGPT to be significantly better at answering question I have than google or DDG or any other search engine. It’s still AI slop, but at least it’s a bit more succinct, and I can ask follow up questions