Comment by dingnuts
2 years ago
It's amazing to me how low the bar is for AI to impress people. Really, 80% of the links were hallucinated, and that's somehow more useful than Kagi for [checks notes] finding real links?
Can you imagine if you did a search on Google and 80% of the results weren't even real websites? We'd all still be using AltaVista!
What on earth kind of standard is "1/5 results actually exist!" -- no comment on whether the 1/5 real results is even relevant. My guess: the real links are usually irrelevant.
That’s actually been my experience with Google for a while.
If I don’t explicitly specify “site:xyz” I get pages of garbage spam sites with no answers.
Somehow ChatGPT seems easier to extract information from as I can just converse, test and repeat vs reading paragraphs of nonsense or skipping through a 14 minute YouTube video to get to incorrect or outdated answers.
As I get more proficient with ChatGPT, it becomes more useful. It has bad habits I can recognize and work around to get what I need. It just feels far more efficient than using a web search tool ever was.
Well the reason why I didn't use google is because of a language barrier. I was using it to research packaging companies in a foreign country in a foreign language. In that case I really don't know what to type into Google.
Other times its generated links are when I prompt it something like "I want to use redux but simpler" and it tells me about 3-5 projects with links to their sites and usually thats better.
Google CEO wants to "make it useful" to everyone, however until its off the internet, it will never be possibly useful to me...
Well they’re releasing an embedded version for on-device use so sounds like it’s useful to you.