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Why pay for a search engine

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162 points lr0 | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 03:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.398s | source
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blindriver ◴[14 Oct 24 05:00 UTC] No.41834342[source]▶
I would rather pay $20/month for ChatGPT and ask it questions directly. I think search engines are a dead technology pretty quickly and the entire ecosystem will die in the next 2-3 years.
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seattle_spring ◴[14 Oct 24 05:17 UTC] No.41834411[source]▶
ChatGPT answers range from completely correct to deranged God-awful wrong, which means I have to use a regular search engine to verify the answers for anything remotely complex. Relying entirely on generative models for information is asking for trouble. Especially because the wrong answers often "look" correct/plausible.
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1. gandalfgreybeer ◴[14 Oct 24 10:38 UTC] No.41836188[source]▶
If you’re using chatGPT, you can add a prompt (I’ve set it in my rules) to “fact check from other websites” when I’m asking it things I’m not an expert in. It then provides some links which I then open up. I’ve found that to be a lot more efficient than searching from google straight up especially with very specific questions I sometimes query.

Half the websites it shows are those I wouldn’t have found on google and are relatively high signal for what I’m looking for (including very niche blogs from experts from the field).