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by esperent 1213 days ago
> rather than google search.

It's important to remember that Google search also returns false results for all kinds of searches and that's it's been getting slowly worse for years.

Recently I searched Google for "bamboo sign" because I was designing a 3d model building and I wanted a placeholder texture for the sign.

What I got was loads of results for "bamboo spine" which apparently is a skeletal disorder of some kind. Putting "sign" in quotes or the entire "bamboo sign" in quotes didn't make any difference, Google had decided I was looking for information about spines and that was it.

I switched over to duckduckgo and got the results I wanted immediately (Duckduckgo, of course, is bad at loads of other things that Google would do better at).

Before people dismiss chat based search for sometimes being incorrect, I think we need a comprehensive test: ask both Google search and the new Bing Chat search a few hundred simple questions on a broad range of topics and see which gives more incorrect answers.