What is your preferred way to search for information online?

What is your preferred way to search for information online?

  • Traditional search engine (eg. Google)

    Votes: 59 73.8%

  • AI search (eg ChatGPT)

    Votes: 21 26.3%
  • Total voters
    80
Depends on the query. If I'm looking for a personalised or more in-depth answer, then AI. Sometimes there are two AI's chatting it out.
 
ChatGPT. love it.

Google AI overview is useful.
 
Google for short, everyday searches.

AI for longer questions, explanations etc.
 
OnlyOneKenobi said:
Depends on what I'm looking for. As far as hallucinations and accuracy is concerned, one can get pretty far by using a prompt like this :
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Do you have to paste that at the beginning of each new AI chat thread?
 
airborne said:
Do you have to paste that at the beginning of each new AI chat thread?
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You have options. You can either set it as the main prompt/instruction in your ChatGPT, Gemini, or Ollama, or create a custom GPT or Gem, or create a custom GPT folder/Gem Notebook. Alternatively, you can use it as a one-off prompt by pasting it ahead of the question you’re asking.
 
Neither. I get all my information from this forum.

You let Indians be in charge so search engines have all been ruined in any case.
 
A combination of both, but definitely using traditional searching less these days.
 
Both, depends on the need. Searching on Google of any search engine brings up AI first anyways...
 
I use both traditional Google and Gemini equally, depending on what I search for or research. Price of vitamin tablets at Clicks?....Google, prognosis after I smashed a toe before I'll likely be able to wear shoes?.....Gemini.
 
Very often using an LLM (not necessarily ChatGPT) unless it's something easy to find. Crawling through pages of unrelated garbage on Google is tedious at best, impossible if your search is a bit too arb.

"Find me the workshop manual that covers the drivetrain for a 1992 Citi Golf in PDF format" is so much simpler than the Google equivalent, even if you add type:pdf to your query, as most of the links you'll get are pay-walled, want you to register, aren't in English, are the wrong manual, are other people looking for the same manual, are Facebook groups discussing the car, or even completely unrelated. You can also ask the LLM to easily retrieve the page/info if it's geo-blocked.

LLMs can also be instructed to eg save HOME10 as meaning strictly within 10km of your home address, because Google will give you results for Pretoria (after saying XYZ near Kempton Park) thanks to the result including Kempton in their keywords. It makes finding things that are ACTUALLY near you very easy vs a wild guess at best.
 
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