[aardvark179]

Were you able to, and did you, verify its answer? In my experience it gives wrong but plausible sounding replies as often as it gives correct answers, so you have to factor in verification time when comparing the amount of work.

[lovelearning]

I verified. In this case, it all checked out.

You're right about the additional time in general. But for much of the information on the web, readers assume the author is speaking from genuine knowledge and has verified the information. IMO it's a better search engine than Google, especially for conceptually complex topics.