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That's my experience as well. Gemini doesn't seem interested in doing searches outside of Deep Research mode, which is kind of funny given it should have the ea

• astrange 1y ago
  The Deep Research mode is on rails, but they're much more generous with it than anyone else. You run out of Claude usage almost instantly if you use theirs. ChatGPT gives you a decent number but then locks you out for a month after that.
  • CryptoBanker 1y ago
    Perplexity is still the king there in terms of the balance between price and quality. It doesn't do as many searches as ChatGPT's deep research, but you get virtually unlimited usage.
    • int_19h 1y ago
      Gemini gives you 50 Deep Research queries per day on the $20/month plan. I've yet to run that limit.
    • gs17 1y ago
      Yeah, I've been keeping Perplexity around since I get a $5/mo education plan and it gives access to everyone's models (plus search) at once.
• dieortin 1y ago
  That does not match my experience at all. Basically any Gemini query will run a search.
  • gs17 1y ago
    Which interface are you using for it? I use the gemini.google.com one and most of the time instead of searching it at most pretends to search and hallucinates the result.
    • roryirvine 1y ago
      Are you telling it to cite sources? I find that doing that helps a lot - sometimes it presents the same result multiple times with a slightly different summary each time, but at least it doesn't outright invent stuff.
      • gs17 1y ago
        I can explicitly tell it to search and it won't.