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by jrflowers 1091 days ago
Can you elaborate on what you mean by “verify multiple documents”?

https://serpapi.com/playground?q=How+to+enable+editing+of+a+...

It looks like Google’s output is nearly identical information as what ChatGPT gave you. If you chose to trust ChatGPT’s output simply because it was more confident sounding, does that actually qualify as the software doing better?

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That's a big “depends.” We can assume that Google employs ML too, and that it will tailor its output to the particular user. Thus, your output might not be the same as mine. With that said, I think it's a positive development that Google does indeed offer quick tuts among its other search results.

However, if you do not get a quick guide, or if you're not satisfied with it for whatever reason (perhaps it doesn't work, which has happened to me multiple times), then you'd be forced to browse documents either way. This takes time and energy which I'm not prepared to spend. That has very little to do with how “confident” the information sounds, it has to do with the likelihood that I will expend energy on bs tasks when I can just get the answer right away. Google simply doesn't offer that.