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by tyre 244 days ago
Chatting with Claude about a topic is in another universe to google search.

I default to Claude for almost everything where I want to know something. I don’t trust Google’s results because of how weighted they are to SEO. Being good at SEO is a separate skill set.

The answers are not low confidence, cite sources, and can do things that Google cannot. For example: I used Claude to design a syllabus to learn about a technical domain along with quizzes and test suites for verification. It linked to video series, books, and articles grouped by an increasingly complex knowledge set.

2 comments

Have you tried the "dive deeper" mode on Google search? Any thoughts?
You are putting too much hope on a glorified parrot.
Parrot? Sure, but a parrot operating in a high dimensional manifold. This breaks naive human assumptions.
Mouthers of this feeble trope are more parrot-like than any LLM. Let's see a parrot do what the person you're replying to has just described.