I'm using Kagi as my default, falling back to Google (typically via '!g' in Kagi) for some technical queries. I use ChatGPT 4o several times a day, but typically not as a 1:1 replacement for web search.
Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?
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#582Would never use LLMs to find things, it's like asking a human to find things, they suck at it mostly and unlike human LLm doesn't have awareness to know it sucks
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#583Yes, because Google also has AI and it’s integrated into my browser bar, Chat-Gpt is just secondary tool to me. If I need something more complex like programming, talk therapy, or finding new music then I’ll hop on over to Chat.
chat gpt search plugs in as a search engine and you can use it from your browser bar.... it also supports bangs like DDG, so you can do !g and it will go to google, but I never find myself wanting google these days
How does it handle typical Google searches like “Chinese food near me”
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#585I use search engine for 2 purpose and not sure if its a common practice across.
Specific search expecting 1 answer. These type search is enhanced by ChatGPT. Google is losing here.
Wild goose chase / brainstorming. For this, I need a broad set of answers. I am looking for a radically different solution. Here, today's Google is inferior to the OG Google. That is for 2 reasons.
1. SEOs have screwed up the results. A famous culprit is pinterest and many other irrelevant site that fill the first couple of pages.
2. Self-sensoring & shadow banning. Banning of torrent sites, politically motivated manipulation. Though the topic I am searching is not political, there is some issue with the result. I can see the difference when I try the same in Bing or DuckDuckGo.
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#586Almost exclusively with "reddit" + something. Although I am using Deep Research more and more even for some of that.
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#587Search is primarily a portal - you know a particular resource exists, you just don't know its exact URL. You hear about this new programming language called "Frob", and you assume it must have a website. So you google "Frob language". You hear that there was a plane crash in DC, and assume (CNN/AP/your_favorite_news_site) has almost certainly written an article about it. You google "DC plane crash." LLMs aren't ever…
LLMs already replaced that news example for me.
Especially grok is really good at summarizing the state of reporting for current events like plane crashes
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#588Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is extremely dangerous to believe that anything said by an AI assistant is correct. Even with supposedly authoritative peer-reviewed research papers it is extremely frequent to find errors whenever the authors claim to quote earlier work, because the reality is that most of them do not bother to read carefully their claimed bibliography. When you get an answer from an AI, the chances greatly increase that the answ…
Appreciate your perspective. To be clear, I'm using it to become a better small game developer and not relying on it to answer anything I would classify as an "important question". Moreover, I don't take everything AI tells me to be 100% accurate (and I never copy/paste the response). Rather, I use it as an assistant with which I can have a back and forth "conversation" to acquire other perspectives. Despite a lot of…
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