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The man who killed Google Search?

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1884 points elorant | 1 comments | 23 Apr 24 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.341s | source
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nbittich ◴[23 Apr 24 18:29 UTC] No.40135406[source]▶
Everytime I need to make a search on Google, I start to feel anxious, already convinced I'm not going to find anything useful about the problem I'm trying to solve. This often means I already tried everything else. It's a sad situation.a product shouldn't make you feel anxious.
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imzadi ◴[23 Apr 24 19:17 UTC] No.40136014[source]▶
I just recently switched to Kagi. It's worth paying a few bucks to get decent results.
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ianbutler ◴[23 Apr 24 19:24 UTC] No.40136093[source]▶
I find myself seeing nothing useful on Kagi, going to Google, seeing nothing useful, then asking ChatGPT and sometimes seeing something useful and othertimes being led on a wild goose chase. The general state of information retrieval seems bleak. Reddit is usually the solution for me, even on technical matters now.
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1. doctor_eval ◴[23 Apr 24 20:43 UTC] No.40137028[source]▶
These days I go chatgpt4 -> ddg -> Google. I did the Kagi trial but it wasn’t compelling.

I am generally sceptical of GPT results, but also of other results, and GPT search is easier to fine tune and drill down into. For example if it gives me an obviously wrong answer, you can call BS. And it even apologises! Much more difficult to do for search engines.