I get that they are not a new kind of Google - but often, there is no alternative because there is no old kind of Google anymore. Search results have become so

I get that they are not a new kind of Google - but often, there is no alternative because there is no old kind of Google anymore. Search results have become so bad that using llms as at least a starting point is becoming more and more necessary. And if that is becoming a common opinion among people who are in practice professionals search engine users, imagine how bad it is for normal folk. They can be hardly blamed for using chats showed in their faces as a search engine.