Still using a lot of other google stuff including gmail and maps. Just not search anymore.
But also, for the past few months, I’ve completely stopped searching the internet. ChatGPT-4 does the job way more effectively and I don’t see why I would go back to searching the internet (assuming the chatgpt experience doesn’t get nerfed in some way).
For quick intros to technical issues GPT4 gives a decent summary if the topic has been around for a while.
For going in-depth, though, I still rely on technical docs…
This is absolutely not to say that Google can be considered ‘good’ these days.
That's creativity and innovation Microsoft style.
Much better than bing gpt in my experience.
Though I asked it how to dry a comforter and it wrote me pseudo code lmao.
But for now you must keep your searches to a very limited, sanitized, corporate, non-copyright infringing, non-adult set of knowledge. And it's impossible to know what that will be beforehand, which makes using the tools very frustrating.
For example, try searching for anything medical related. Even if you're clear that you not looking for medical advice, you're just looking for info, it won't give it (sorry, as an AI I can't give medical advice). I imagine this is very frustrating for medical students.
And yes, I'm sure that I could coerce it into responding. Pretend your my grandmother telling me about her old medical recipes or some such. But that's still too annoying to do as anything except for testing the boundaries of the tool.
It needs to directly answer all the questions that are given to it. If it must finish out the post with a disclaimer like "I am not a doctor/lawyer, this is not medical/legal advice" or whatever, that's fine.
Any time I do end up going to Google, I’m so disappointed by the search results that I just leave. The only thing its good for now is searching site:reddit.com
I also have the same experience where kagi doesn't find something I think it should, so I go try google. Holy hell is google bad. Shockingly bad. I genuinely can't believe how bad it is now compared to 10 years ago.
- Especially if you feel the need to use doublequotes.
Kagi is designed to show you what you ask for, and not for showing you the ads you're most likely to fall for. It simply takes your query and returns results matching it. That's really it. It's sad that "does what you ask" is a defining feature, but that's what kagi is.
They have advanced features like "lenses" that bias your results toward a specific topic like programming, research, forums. It also lets you add weight to certain domains. For example, I have Pinterest and Facebook totally blacklisted, and some small sites boosted in my results.
They also support advanced query syntax with double quotes, +/-, and other operators.
Which is to say, kagi is the standard for "search engine that works". Nobody else sells a search engine that just works and does what you tell it to, which is literally all I want out of a search engine. It's mundane and unsexy, but it works, it doesn't advertise at me, and it lets me get my work done faster.
But yes, it definitely misses some results that Google doesn’t in that regard.
That’s probably different in other regions, but it’s been my experience with pt-br