> If that's true, why then did it take me 10 seconds yesterday to find an extremely obscure fact of 18th century history with ChatGPT 3.5? I tried Google querie

> If that's true, why then did it take me 10 seconds yesterday to find an extremely obscure fact of 18th century history with ChatGPT 3.5? I tried Google queries for over an hour, without success. This is true, yet I wonder how much of this "ChatGPT is way better than Google at Googling" effect is due simply to how bad Google has gotten over the last decade. ChatGPT and similar models seem to be uncontroversially best at this kind of task -- just being a replacement for Google Search.