[Zachsa999]

Chat as a search engine will fail for several reasons. It requires creativity, it's inaccurate with much nich information, and it's slow. There is many reasons to use AI chat technology, but as a search engine replacement it fails completely.

Google search is objectively easier to use, and safer. You can view the website and judge for yourself the integrity of the content. It's slow, because every query that is better on ai chat has to be generated.

However, I am really excited to have a new google toy on my search bar to use when those times come. I hope they put it in the foreground,band offer at least a basic free tier.

[starik36]

I agree with you to a point. It depends on what you are trying to search. For example, search for Top 10 things to do in {popular place}. You will likely get a bunch of hits that are highly SEOed and your senses will be assaulted as you try to actually figure out points of interest.

Here is the top hit for Venice. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g187870-Activities-V...

I had to scroll up and down twice to figure out what are actually things that I want to see and what is being upsold to me.

Now ask ChatGPT the same question. Answer is concise and to the point.

[dietr1ch]

I think chat is a good fit for refining search queries, but yeah, we already got too good at figuring out keywords to search, which makes writing a question seem a lot more work.

Maybe writing search queries in the form of a question will help people that didn't grew up using the very early search engines.