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Yeah this is exactly how I use LLMs + Google as well. I would even go further and say that most of the value of Google to me is the ability to find a specific type of source by searching for exact terminology. I think AI search is fatally flawed for this reason. For some things generic factual information is okay ("What's the capital of France?") but for everything else, the information is inextricably bound up with it's context. A spammy SEO blog and a specialist forum might have identical claims, but when received from the latter source it's more valuable, it's just higher signal.

Google used to care about this but no longer does, pagerank sucks and is ruined by SEO, but it still "works" because if you're good you can guess the kind of source you're looking for and what keywords might surface it. LLMs help with that part but you still need to read it yourself, because they don't have theory of mind yet to make good value judgements on source quality and communicate about it.