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IDK, he did get the answer, and he didn’t have to scroll through Amazon ads for pipes.
Yeah, good point. I guess I’d rather scroll instead of try to convince an AI why it should give me what I asked for, but that’s probably just because to me scrolling is easier than putting effort into constructing a sentence.
Modern Google searches do a great job of returning results for people who want to buy things, but not a great job for people who want to learn things.
I think my ideal solution would be to have a custom search engine that only searches against wiki style sites or other websites dedicated to hosting reference material.
Google scholar still works well, however, it’s not very accessible to people that don’t have postgraduate level abilities in the subject areas they are exploring.