[Zambyte]

This is the "they're holding it wrong" of search engines. People want to use a search engine by querying with complete sentences. If search engines don't support such querying, it's the search engine that is wrong and should be updated, not the people.

Search engines have gotten way better at handling complete sentences in recent years, to the point where I often catch myself deleting my keyword query and replacing it with a sentence before I even submit it, because I know I will be able to more accurately capture what it is I am searching for in a sentence.

[Anamon]

Funnily enough, I've shown some people who said they liked using ChatGPT over Google because they can ask questions in natural language, that they can paste the same natural language question to Google's search bar and get their answers just as easily, and with actual sources. That was before search engines started showing "AI summaries", so I guess the demonstration effect wouldn't be the same today.

Natural language search queries have worked surprisingly well for quite a while before that, even.