I’ve heard a lot of people say they use Google considerably less after they started using ChatGPT, but personally my usage of Google hasn’t gone down that much. I still make lots of random searches out of curiosity, and use Perplexity to make those same searches, I’d actually say Perplexity has made me search more in total.
However, it has greatly reduced the amount of troubleshoot searching I’ve done since I can ask GPT about how to do X and Y in a certain app (and often gives accurate answers about navigating app UIs), and troubleshooting.
I barely search anymore, unless its images or websites or something. I’ve found a lot of use for Bing chat despite the hate it gets. It gives me a lot of utility value.
Not much, to be honest. I still have doubts that models aren’t allowed or it’s considered immoral to answer, so half the time I search by myself. But I like using Bing for boring jobs or tasks, although hallucinations can be the problem for many I know how to do damage control.
Being more direct;
Is it useful? Yes. Does it replace it? No.
The decrease in quality in the new ChatGPT 4.0 is actually making me Google more once again.
I use Edge, so when I search something in Bing I also get a reply from the AI simultaneously.
If the question is trivial, I trust GPT got it right. If the question is semi-complex, I ask, then confirm with a web search. For some reason Google used to be a lot smarter in the past, too. These days it’s more of a link fetcher.
There are certainly cases where searching it is just 50x faster than asking an LLM, however i think GPT-5 will fully replace search for me (or possibly GPT-4.5 if such a thing exists).
2% - I don’t use chatbots as a replacement for searching and reading for myself. Not yet anyway.
But for abstract thinking, I turn to ai.
For instance, merging two different types of technologies in new ways.
Ai chatbots are good at this