Once they released its coding ability it became more useful. I use Bard less than ChatGPT still, but it is not useless since it has more modern information.
It is smarter than the previous beta, but yes, it's still throws some wild pitches, and without sources. Still a work in progress.
I think LLMs still make up most of their answers, but use whatever links they find to generate context for the answers, so there is a lower possibility it'll generate confabulations. Of course, if the source is low-quality, it's just going to use that to justify a sloppy answer.
Still think it's better than me sorting through content farm posts. I look forward to next year's models that are trained on curated data sifting through well-sourced web sites.
*I like to add, "Only use educational or science journalism sources," to get higher quality links.