What Happened To Google Search?

https://lemmy.world/post/134333

What Happened To Google Search? - Lemmy.world

Esp. relevant amidst the reddit blackout, and how it’s affecting Google Search quality as well.

Today people append Reddit to their search to find human replies to their question. If the Reddit community fragments into the fediverse what keyword would they type in then?

Hot take: The old way of searching is outdated.

Bing Chat is rough, but it's the future. You ask it a question - it uses a modified ChatGPT to generate an answer and cites its sources.

About 60% of the time, it's right. About 40% of the time it's wrong. But either way, it cites its sources using links that it found during that search. You can click those sources and see responses from humans, who generally have the correct answer.

I rarely use Google now. Bing Chat is always my first stop for any kind of question or general knowledge query. Give it 5 years - 10 at most - and that'll be the only way to use a search engine. The tech isn't going anywhere, and it's only getting better.

You’re right. I’m primarily using this, discord, and ChatGPT as my main tools for browsing/troubleshooting/interacting.

One thing that works really well with GPT is that sometimes it will tell you that you are framing the problem incorrectly and make a lateral move to a different system that still solves the problem.

I was about to spend a lot of time and energy setting up a server and it told me of a way to do what I was looking for through Google Drive instead.

It’s almost as good as talking to a real expert.