[tifadg1]

Google search is arguably dead already if I have to prefix every query with reddit or stackoverflow. Certainly it's only a matter of time before those go down the drain too. Using chatgpt definitely feels like living in the future.

[bambax]

How is Google Search dead? When by your own admission you still use it with a "prefix", instead of searching directly on Reddit or SO.

Not only is Google Search not dead by any measure, but 1/ most websites are completely incapable of implementing a local search function that actually works, and 2/ all of Google competitors try to copy its features (and do a bad job at it).

I don't work for Google, I don't own Google stock. But Google's dominance is hard to not see.

[Beaver117]

Because they can't monetize only results from those sites. If I don't prefix "reddit" I'll get dozens of websites I've never even heard of, before an actual answer. Even wikipedia is sometimes on the second or third page, everything else is spam.

[user3939382]

bing/DDG is unusable for me since I realized it’s constantly ignoring words in my query. Google is better with this but its results are cluttered with SEO crap not to mention the creepiness factor of Google. I switched to a paid Kagi subscription. Let’s see how it goes.

[jdgoesmarching]

Agreed. Everyone here is laughing about Google’s tech being more advanced and maybe it is, but at the end of the day ChatGPT produces answers while Google produces blog spam.

At present I’d consider them tied in terms of accuracy, but I have more faith in ChatGPT’s ability to improve its AI than Google’s ability to ship a good product.

[bamboozled]

If you’re doing this I suggest DuckDuckGo with “bangs” go save a few keystrokes.