My hot take on this new era of search engines is that "search is a bug" and even trying to be a search engine is a fool's errand. Search solved a problem of the legacy internet where you wanted information and that information would be on one of a million websites.
If someone is going to disrupt Google, it's because they've cut out the middleman that is search results and simply give you what you're asking for. ChatGPT and Perplexity are doing the best here so far afaik
If someone is going to disrupt Google, it's because they've cut out the middleman that is search results and simply give you what you're asking for. ChatGPT and Perplexity are doing the best here so far afaik