alt Hacker Newspeople used to say this about search engines and web browsers, as well
regardless, eventually Google became the universal default for both. When it comes to software, the average person doesn't shop around for the technologically optimal choice, they just use what everyone else is using.
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baq • last Monday at 2:23 PM
my point is today there is no clear winner. opus, gpt 5.4 and gemini have different strengths. google search was running circles around competition in basically all use cases.
Google search is free to use. if they spike the models price up, people will look for alternatives