The difference is that in the search engine output one can somewhat judge if a site is trustworthy. E. g. if I research a legal question I would trust a guide o

The difference is that in the search engine output one can somewhat judge if a site is trustworthy. E. g. if I research a legal question I would trust a guide on a government website more than an answer on Reddit which contradicts an official source. With LLM I don’t know where weight for a particular answer came from. You can ask LLM for sources but its text answer can still misrepresent these sources.