Just occurred to me: When you _SEARCH_ the web you want to _FIND_ _AN EXISTING THING_.
Like the idea of adding "generative" into that literally makes no sense.
@tante Psychologists might disagree. Or at least say it is more complicated. What are we *really* searching for?
@tante it's the Monty Python spam skit

@tante But you also "search" for the (not-yet-existing) solution to a problem, no?

Language is complicated...

@LupinoArts I don't know

the assumption is still that an answer exists

I used to make web searches that had zero results, and that was relevant information. That I'd misspelled a word, that it was a spurious idea, that the relevant information was not digitized. Doing it several times helped me define what I was actually trying to find and at times, how I might find it.
@tante

@tante generative search feels like a doubling-down on the fascist 2010 quote by a certain CEO, that people are not really searching for a specific thing but "they want G—— to tell them what they should be doing next."
LLMs: It is better to "create" content than to find it. " 🤡
@tante One of those things that seems obvious when you think of it.