{"id":38274,"date":"2023-01-25T16:31:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T21:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38274"},"modified":"2023-01-31T15:51:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T20:51:53","slug":"chatgpt-vs-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/25\/chatgpt-vs-google\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT vs. Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Winer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I went to ChatGPT and entered “Simple instructions about how to send email from a Node.js app?” What came back<\/a> was absolutely perfect, none of the confusing crap and business models you see in online instructions in Google<\/a>. I see why Google is worried. ;-)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The threat to Google is real. That type of search for a clearly-written one-line programming question used to produce excellent results from Google Search. For a number of years, though, search results for queries like that — both at Google and competing search engines — have been littered with junk generated by content farms.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The problem with Google Search today isn’t specific to programming questions, but the general problem of answering how-to questions in any subject.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

The ranking problem is real—these days it’s common for Google search results to be filled with junk. But I think the bigger problem is that Google no longer feels complete. I used to be able to weed out the junk by writing more specific queries. Now, such queries—as well as searches for phrases that I know exist on the Web—commonly turn up nothing<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n