[planb]

> I have yet to get a single good response (in my research area) for anything slightly more complicated than what a quick google search would reveal.

Even then, with search enabled it's ways quicker than a "quick" google search and you don't have to manually skip all the blog-spam.

[getnormality]

Google search was great when it came out too. I wonder what 25 years of enshittification will do to LLM services.

[kshacker]

Enshittification happened but look at how life changed since 1999 (25 years as you mentioned). Songs in your palm, search in your palm, maps in your palm or car dashboard, live traffic rerouting, track your kids plane from home before leaving for airport, book tickets without calling someone. WhatsApp connected more people than anything.

Of course there are scams and online indoctrination not denying that.

Maybe each service degraded from its original nice view but there is an overall enhancement of our ability to do things.

Hopefully the same happens over next 25 years. A few bad things but a lot of good things.

[ssl-3]

I think I had most or all of that functionality in 2009, with Android 2.0 on the OG Motorola Droid.

What has Google done for me lately?

[ALittleLight]

But also what new tools will emerge to supplant LLMs as they are supplanting Google? And how good will open source (weights) LLMs be?

[hackernewds]

absurd, the claim that Google search was better 25 years ago than today. that's vastly trivializing the amount of volume and scale that Google needs to process