[atrettel]

I find traditional web search and LLM search to be complementary technologies, and this is a good example of that. Both have their uses and if you get the information you need using one or the other, we are all happy.

I think the example query here actually shows a problem with the query languages used in web search rather than an intrinsic inability of web search. It contains what amounts to a natural language subquery starting with "in the same year". In other words, to evaluate this query properly, we need to first evaluate this subquery and then use that information to evaluate the overall query. Google Search and almost all other traditional web search engines use intentionally oversimplified query languages that disallow nested queries let alone subqueries, so this example really is just revealing a problem with the query language rather than a problem with web search overall. With a better query language, we might get better results.