An answer is only as good as the expertise behind it. When searching I always pay attention to the source, and will skip ones that look less trustworthy. One m

An answer is only as good as the expertise behind it. When searching I always pay attention to the source, and will skip ones that look less trustworthy. One major advantage of Google's original pagerank was that originally it worked well and number of links to a page was a good proxy for trustworthiness and authority on a subject. It used to be that you'd find what you were looking for in the top few Google search results, which was a massive improvement to Alta Vista which was the existing competition where you'd have to wade though pages of keyword match sites listed in no particular order. Anyway, source is critically important, and if I'm looking to find something authoritative then the output of an LLM, even if RAG based, is not what I'm looking for! Increasingly people may be looking to search to verify stuff suggested by an LLM, which makes a search engine that puts LLM output as it's top result rather unhelpful! It doesn't help that with Google in particular their AI output is all heavily DEI biased, and who knows what else ... I just don't trust it as objective.