THe internet really used to be efficient and i could always find exactly what i wanted with an imprecise google search ~ 15 years ago.
Even here, I'm responding to you on a thread that I haven't been in on previously.
There's also a lot more material out there in the format of Stack Exchange questions and answers, Quora posts, blog posts and such than there is for consistent back and forth interplay between two people.
IRC chat logs might have been better...ish.
The cadence for discussion is unique to the medium in which the discussion happens. What's more, the prompt may require further investigation and elaboration prior to a more complete response, while other times it may be something that requires story telling and making it up as it goes.
This is not how humans converse in human social settings. The medium is the message, as they say.
"I ask a short and vague question and you response with a scrollbar-full of information based on some invalid assumptions" is not, by any reasonable definition, a "chat".
I had the same issue with Kagi, where I'd follow the citation and it would say the opposite of the summary.
A human can make sense of search results with a little time and effort, but current AI models don't seem to be able to.