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I've used gpt a coup times when I was searching the web and forums for well over an hour and found nothing relevant enough to work. Theissue got solved in 5-10 minutes.
They enshittified the search so now using the chatbot is more useful. The search just returns slop and even fake slop forums.
Pretty much. Can't find useful info without having to put in ALOT of extra work that I wouldn't of a decade ago.
Fuck though I love being able to ask it for part numbers and info. Much less hassle to ask it then use the shitty corpo parts catalogues search features especially when there's weird naming schemes and a lack of description, clicking through 50 parts trying to find the right one sucks.
Its more that SEO is so well known at this point you can whip up whatever AI generated garabge you want to be ranked high on search engines in seconds. For now the AIs are just better at "wading" through the trash since they somewhat curate the data its training on. Once all they can train it on is slop you better hope you still have some encyclopedias and text books laying around
I mean I have been using DDG for years now. I just could not find the right answer for my specific issue on my specific linux distro and AI was sadly just faster