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by MPSimmons 1088 days ago
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.
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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.