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[–] 8 points 11 months ago* (10 children)

To be fair, that answer on Reddit is practically impossible to find any other way

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    In my experience at least, there has not once been an instance where an LLM was able to find answers on Reddit more reliably than I could, and I've been using LLMs since before ChatGPT was even a thing. (though granted, most web-search compatible LLMs came later on)

    I think it will probably be better than the average user, since a lot of people simply aren't that great at using search engines very effectively in the first place, but I wouldn't call the answers "practically impossible to find."

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  • [–] 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    The enshitification of search engines also doesn't help with finding answers directly.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    True. I've found DuckDuckGo to still be pretty good though, especially for forum searches, at least in my experience.

    I use Kagi now, which is even better, for me at least, but that's paid and I know most people aren't gonna shell out money every month for a search engine.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Just use a different search engine! Just because it's called "googling", does not mean you have to use Google.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Bing is hardly better most of the time, and ddg pulls from one of the two if memory serves.

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