I have reduced my traditional search engine use by, I'd guess, 90%. Having said that, I use ChatGPT exactly like a search engine. If I want to find info I will

I have reduced my traditional search engine use by, I'd guess, 90%. Having said that, I use ChatGPT exactly like a search engine. If I want to find info I will explicitly enable the web search mode and usually just read the sources, not the actual summary provided by the LLM. Why do this? I find if I don't quite know the exact term I am looking for I can describe my problem/situation and let ChatGPT make the relevant searches on my behalf (and presumably also do some kind of embedding lookup). This is particularly useful in new domains, e.g. I've been helping my wife do some legal research and I can explain my layman's understanding of a situation and ask for legal references, and sure enough it will produce cases and/or gov.uk sources that I can check. She has been impressed enough to buy a subscription. I have also noticed that my years (decades!) of search engine skills have atrophied quicker than expected. I find myself typing into Google as I would to ChatGPT, in a much more human way, then catch myself and realise I can actually write much more tersely (and use, e.g. site:).