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I think the list-of-links Web search paradigm has plenty of time left, for at least three reasons: (1) A good chunk of a typical user's needs are to do somethi
by dougb5 4y ago
I think the list-of-links Web search paradigm has plenty of time left, for at least three reasons: (1) A good chunk of a typical user's needs are to do something, not to find an answer to a question; (2) Google is lightning fast compared to present-day chat interfaces; (3) "keywordese" may be an unnatural input language for search queries, but it's faster than having a dialog.
I still make dozens of Google queries per day, and do maybe 1 or 2 ChatGPT sessions per week, and I'm quite aware of all the capabilities and deficits of each. I wondered why this was, until I reflected on the things I actually search for on Google (Go to https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity and filter to just show "Search"). This was a useful exercise. What percentage of your recent queries would have worked well, and more quickly, on ChatGPT? For me it was less than 1/10...