I find myself Googling less often these days. Frustrated with both the poor search results and impressed with the quality of AI to do the same thing and more, I think search's days are numbered. AOL lasted as an email address for quite some time after America Online ceased to be a relevant portal. Maybe Gmail will as well.
I am still googling for non-indepth queries because the AI-generated summary at the top of the results is good enough most of the time and actual results are just below in case I want to see them.
For more in-depth stuff, it is LLMs by default and I only goto Google when the LLM isn't getting me what I need.
I notice I have been using the Google AI summary more and more for quick things.
I had subscribed to Perplexity for a month to use their deep research. I think it ran out earlier this week but I am really missing it Saturday morning here.
That thing is awesome. Sonnet 3.7 is more in the middle of this to me. It can help me understand all the things I found from my deep research requests.
I am surprised the hype is not more for Sonnet 3.7 honestly.
Agree and I'm pretty sure Google is seeing this drop internally in usage stats and are panicking.
I'm also certain (but hope to be wrong) that because of this they'll be monetizing the hell out of every remaining piece of product they have (not by charging for it of course).
