I haven't found LLMs to be all that useful for searching the web, but I suspect that how useful it is depends on what you're searching for.
I'm rarely searching to find an answer to a specific question, I'm more usually searching in order to do research. What I want from the search is a list of online resources on the topic I'm researching. That's what web searches give me.
If I were looking for a specific answer on a topic I already know well enough to be able to spot errors, LLMs may be very useful. But that's just not what I'm usually doing.
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I haven't found LLMs to be all that useful for searching the web, but I suspect that how useful it is depends on what you're searching for.
I'm rarely searching to find an answer to a specific question, I'm more usually searching in order to do research. What I want from the search is a list of online resources on the topic I'm researching. That's what web searches give me.
If I were looking for a specific answer on a topic I already know well enough to be able to spot errors, LLMs may be very useful. But that's just not what I'm usually doing.