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by icapybara 1088 days ago
We found that our product was accidentally very useful and are taking it down while we fix this.
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I found the opposite, actually. All of ChatGPT queries that were "enhanced" by web search were invariably worse than without. Usually it gave up. Sometimes it clicked on ads. I don't think I ever asked anything that was enhanced by the web access.
I have the same experience, and I never use it anymore.

Basically browsing gives a worse answer with longer waiting time.

It's so very bad, I've assumed they nerfed it because of issues they were trying to avoid. Very alpha.

Sometimes 100% of the "Browse with Bing" experience was "Click failed" and "Reading content failed" followed by "...since my knowledge cutoff in September 2021..."

Yeah, it takes forever to produce a mediocre result. Bing Chat and Kagi’s FastGPT are much more usable. Or even Kagi’s Quick Answer and Summarize feature on search results.
Very useful in legal perspectives, as it can make lawyers rich very quickly.