> I thought the consensus was that Google search was awful
Compared to what it was. Awful is DDG (which I still have as default but now I am banging g every single time since it is useless).
I also conducted a few comparative GPT assisted searches -- prompt asks gpt to craft optimal search queries -- and plugged in the results into various search engines. ChatGPT + Google gave the best results. I got basically the same poor results from Bing and DDG. Brave was 2nd place.
Compared to what it was. Awful is DDG (which I still have as default but now I am banging g every single time since it is useless).
I also conducted a few comparative GPT assisted searches -- prompt asks gpt to craft optimal search queries -- and plugged in the results into various search engines. ChatGPT + Google gave the best results. I got basically the same poor results from Bing and DDG. Brave was 2nd place.