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The Future of Search: Will we still Google it? (lrb.co.uk)
3 points by gHeadphone 214 days ago
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Well, not Google specifically -- I have terrible luck finding what I want with Google -- but yes, I'll still use search engines. Summaries or genAI searching doesn't even come close to meeting my needs for 80% of my web searches.
LLMs are garbage that will never replace keyword search. This article shares my opinions on the matter: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10676-024-097...

Google is supposed to have competitors but they keep disappearing mysteriously. This is a good article about that: https://archive.org/details/search-timeline