I have repeatedly tried to use LLMs as search engines, both general (like ChatGPT) or more focused on specific domains. I have not been impressed by the result

I have repeatedly tried to use LLMs as search engines, both general (like ChatGPT) or more focused on specific domains. I have not been impressed by the results. In my experience, LLMs used this way generally output confident-sounding information but have one of two problems the majority of the time: - The information is blatantly wrong, from a source that doesn't exist. - The information is subtly wrong, and generated a predictive chain that doesn't exist from part of a source. I have found them about on-par with the reliability of a straightforward Google search with no constraints, but that is more of a condemnation of how poor Google's modern performance as a search engine is, than an accolade for using LLMs for search.