In the pre-LLM days it was cool that Google did weather, unit conversions, sports results, etc. But that's not even close to their value proposition. Even 5 years ago if someone told me they had planned a photograph and got it wrong because Google gave them the wrong time for sunset, I would have called them a moron for relying on Google! There are sites and apps dedicated to this. Use one of them!
Installing an app to learn a single time would be the real moron option.
What I'm saying is all Google has to do is stop giving those types of "custom" answers it already has. No one will abandon using Search if it goes away.
> It's not any stupider to use that info than a dedicated site. Both could be wrong, and you're not a moron if it is.
It is. Using a well vetted, dedicated app is the way to go, and it's extremely unlikely to be wrong - especially for something like sunset times. You know the dedicated app/site is, well, dedicated to providing that information. They exist to provide that information.
Whereas the (pre-LLM) quick answers Google gave? All opaque. And smart people always knew that information being accurate was not something that matters that much to Google.
Let's not forget that Google's actual sunset widget does a good job.
> “I had the projector set up outside and was waiting for the sun to set,” wrote one Facebook user in Colorado Springs, “but to my surprise I was simply living in the past. AI informed me the sunset had already happened.”
It does sound a bit bizarre.