Whenever I've tried this, it seems okay if you need an answer to a question, but plain bad if I'm looking for a specific page.

e.g. I'm just now looking for the menu for a local restaurant. "restaurantname menu" in Kagi (Google would presumably be similar) returns a link to the menu as the first result in about a second. Or "restaurantname menu !" goes directly to the menu in about a second.

Meanwhile, searching "restaurantname menu" in chatgpt takes about 5 seconds to return an embedded map from mapbox showing the location of the restaurant. If I click the restaurant pin on the map, there's no menu link, the 667 reviews have no link or way to view, and the restaurant description literally says "I don't have enough information to identify which local business <restaurantname> refers to."

Below the map there's some text: "If you mean <restaurantname> in <place>, here’s the current menu. <restaurantname>". The <restaurantname> link just opens the same card as clicking the pin on the map.

After that there's a bullet point list of the menu that ommits a ton of detail and options.

After that there's finally a link... that I can click to open up a popup at the bottom of the page with an actual link to the menu.

This was literally the first thing that popped into my head, I didn't have to put any effort into finding a query where chatgpt falls on its face.

I wish one of those free AIs made a search product already. I don't want my search results to be interspersed with text

I guess that the web chat can have a search skill to remove the prose and give only links, plus maybe an excerpt of each result

Yeah, its way faster.

Its not because chatgpt is so superior. Its just because google search is dogshit.

They work on killing the web as we knew it and I fear its kinda working.