[speak_plainly]

There will be a learning curve for some, like the person behind this article. Searching in AI mode will mean your query is going to need to be a bit more pointed.

The example given is you want evidence from an original source in Stack Overflow. So instead of just typing a few keywords and digging through pages, your query needs to ask Google exactly what you want and the format you want it in. If that’s a list of Stack Overflow pages, then that’s what you ask for. You can test this out now with AI summaries and a well-written query.

The quality of your results is going to depend on what you put into it. It will probably be annoying for some at first but for those that get it it’s going to be a step up.

[TkTech]

No, those search engines will simply stop being used by people that care. Google's "AI results" have already wrongly accused people of being sex offenders and make up gibberish constantly. They are a blight and a scourge. There are already many lawsuits against the garbage it invents.

The "quality" of your prompt is irrelevant when you're feeding it to something that just imagines things.

[jatora]

As he said, its just a learning curve and you are behind on it. Dont use AI mode use perplexity or gpt for your search. its far superior to traditional search, just slower. The quality of your prompt also matters. Im pretty annoyed by those like you who hide and mask their ignorance behind anything they can grasp to cover themselves. It's transparent to most but yourself. Ignorance i could forgive, but not the dishonesty.

[bigstrat2003]

> There will be a learning curve for some, like the person behind this article.

That's ridiculous. There isn't a learning curve, we don't want AI. No amount of "learning" is going to make these misbegotten features into something that actually improves my experience with the product. You should listen to people, not assume that you know their desires better than they do.

[jatora]

Why dont you want AI?

[foolfoolz]

i want ai

[d0liver]

In other words, for the primary uses of search things have gotten much worse, but some workarounds still exist.

[jatora]

ill take ai search over blog and seo-infused search any day

[domga]

I can’t decide whether this is sarcasm or not. “You are holding it wrong” kinda sidesteps the issue that the results are fundamentally different.