what I like about using AI for search is that even if it’s wrong, it’s at least pointing me in the right direction.

whereas if I use a modern search engine I find nothing.

I remember when search engines would actually give you what you were looking for. those were the days. I would take that over AI search any time.

When you could actually get useful exact matches and semantic matches too.

nowadays search engines are more like:

“if page contains one of the stem words in the query, then return the page as top result; ignore all other words in the query or what order they are in”

someone at google probably got 1000000 billion dollars for this innovative “optimization”