aye, to me they’re just a different interface to the same information publicly available via a search engine.
for folks who haven’t spent the last 15 years honing their finding out technical information with a search engine craft i can see why they might be useful.
but a search engine won’t sometimes mangle the output and provide an incorrect answer — it only provides a link to the raw data (webpage), rather than trying to create a paragraph of text about it.
i’d rather have access to the raw data guaranteed unmangled. i’m fast enough using that method.
for folks who haven’t spent the last 15 years honing their finding out technical information with a search engine craft i can see why they might be useful.
but a search engine won’t sometimes mangle the output and provide an incorrect answer — it only provides a link to the raw data (webpage), rather than trying to create a paragraph of text about it.
i’d rather have access to the raw data guaranteed unmangled. i’m fast enough using that method.