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by powerapple 1264 days ago
The question is that if you can have "write me a letter", would you still go for "find out how to write a letter"? Needless to say you can actually have model to explain to you "how to write a letter" better than Google. How do I use Google now (kind of, because I switched to duckduckgo actually)? Mostly to search for answers to a question, a error message or something. It can be solved with ChatGPT, except ChatGPT is not as convenient given I can type in address bar, browser will bring me to a search page. For me Google is a gateway to StackOverflow, wiki, documentations, blogs, it is very much replaceable.

No one currently uses Google search to draft letter not because we don't want to, because Google is not able to solve the problem, hence we settle with a two-step solution, find out how then do it.

Another thing I use Google search (again duckduckgo) is for navigation, I remember partial name of a website, and use it to find the link to the page.