In my experience at least, there has not once been an instance where an LLM was able to find answers on Reddit more reliably than I could, and I’ve been using LLMs since before ChatGPT was even a thing. (though granted, most web-search compatible LLMs came later on)
I think it will probably be better than the average user, since a lot of people simply aren’t that great at using search engines very effectively in the first place, but I wouldn’t call the answers “practically impossible to find.”
True. I’ve found DuckDuckGo to still be pretty good though, especially for forum searches, at least in my experience.
I use Kagi now, which is even better, for me at least, but that’s paid and I know most people aren’t gonna shell out money every month for a search engine.
I read that as being a shot at their internal search feature sucking, which it did for a long time, not sure what it is like now. It was easier to search Google to find things on reddit for a while there.
To be fair, that answer on Reddit is practically impossible to find any other way
In my experience at least, there has not once been an instance where an LLM was able to find answers on Reddit more reliably than I could, and I’ve been using LLMs since before ChatGPT was even a thing. (though granted, most web-search compatible LLMs came later on)
I think it will probably be better than the average user, since a lot of people simply aren’t that great at using search engines very effectively in the first place, but I wouldn’t call the answers “practically impossible to find.”
The enshitification of search engines also doesn’t help with finding answers directly.
True. I’ve found DuckDuckGo to still be pretty good though, especially for forum searches, at least in my experience.
I use Kagi now, which is even better, for me at least, but that’s paid and I know most people aren’t gonna shell out money every month for a search engine.
This is killing me. Has anyone else noticed that Google dorks just straight up don’t work anymore?
Google made their CEO of advertising into the CEO of search. Unsurprisingly, it sucks now.
I read that as being a shot at their internal search feature sucking, which it did for a long time, not sure what it is like now. It was easier to search Google to find things on reddit for a while there.
Just use a different search engine! Just because it’s called “googling”, does not mean you have to use Google.
Bing is hardly better most of the time, and ddg pulls from one of the two if memory serves.
ecosia :D uses both google and bing atm for english results but they are working on their own search index:
https://blog.ecosia.org/launching-our-european-search-index/
Yandex?