> but it's not Google Search, and when I want Search I want Search.

Not me. I really appreciate having both results simultaneously. I can scan the first couple sentences of the AI response, and if that already has the answer then great. I can expand it to see if there's more.

Or, if I see that the AI mode didn't understand my brief search query, I just glance at the search results below.

And often times, when I do need to follow a link, I find the source result links in the AI mode to be a better quality than the search result links.

It's the best of both worlds.

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tredre3 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I can scan the first couple sentences of the AI response, and if that already has the answer then great.

But how do make the determination that the answer is good and you should stop reading the page? Vibes?

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gbalduzzi an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I think it depends on what you are looking for.

Most of the time I'm looking for something very specific that there are plenty of articles about, but clicking on the articles results in popups, banners and an unhealthy amount of scrolling to get to the answer.

AI overview provides me the answer instantly.

Think about suff like "does china borders afghanistan". In those cases you can be confident that the AI overview is right, and saved you time.

If it is a complex or niche question I tend not to trust the overview and go straight for legitimate-looking results

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Kiro an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Before AI people got the answer they needed from the snippets. That's the level most search queries are at.

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aprdm 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How do you make it without AI ? Are you parsing through millions of pages yourself ?

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Forgeties79 an hour ago | parent [-]

The LLM results are presented confidently and succinctly in a way that is designed to tell you “yes” OR, it not applicable, it just mashes together statements (which often leads to a response that contradicts itself one sentence later). That’s not the same as your vetting search results.

Well before Google screwed it all up there used to be some correlation between top hits and what you were looking for. SEO has muddied the waters for many years now and it’s never been truly “merit based” or “objective” or whatever we want to call it, but generally speaking, the first results were the best by default.

	▲	aprdm an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That hasn't been my experience. It has been working really well for what I need. SEO optimization totally ruined google search for me for the past few years

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miltonlost 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Hope the answer in the AI response is right!