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by JumpCrisscross 401 days ago
> OpenAI is not directly competing against Google on search. They don’t have a public search engine

This is like the railroad arguing they don’t compete with trucks before promptly going bankrupt in the late 60s / early 70s.
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bigstrat2003 401 days ago
Except a truck is actually better than a train (except in the case of moving huge quantities of cargo). ChatGPT is far worse at "searching" than Google is, it blows my mind that people are willing to subject themselves to it.
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JumpCrisscross 401 days ago
> a truck is actually better than a train (except in the case of moving huge quantities of cargo). ChatGPT is far worse at "searching"

A truck and train are both transport. Google and ChatGPT are both fuzzy information retrieval functions. As a Kagi user, I’m not really seeing a massive difference in quality between first-page Google results and whatever nonsense LLMs serve up for the average searcher, who is not typically searching out of hardened utility as much as rough convenience.

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