Since it first appeared in 1998, Google Search has become so embedded into everyday life that it's become a verb ("Google it").
I haven't used it for at least a month and won't be in the future.
That's because AI is now markedly better for everyday queries and boy is it fast: it's rare to wait even a minute for a detailed answer like that above.
In the past I would've been visiting website after website looking for the particular song — David Bowie's "Modern Love" — that Perplexity Pro spit out in about 30 seconds.
If you're not using AI now, you will be soon.
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ReplyDeleteThe reboot of Hawaii Five-O (with Alex O'Loughlin, Scott Caan, Daniel Dae Kim, and Grace Park) was sponsored by Microsoft. Microsoft's search engine was -- is? -- Bing. Many times Kim's character said, "Bing it," trying to coin a phrase to compete with "Google it." It did not take off.