{"id":7321,"date":"2023-07-31T11:27:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T11:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysourcefunding.com\/startups\/hands-on-with-google-searchs-answer-to-chatgpt\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T11:27:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T11:27:39","slug":"hands-on-with-google-searchs-answer-to-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysourcefunding.com\/?p=7321","title":{"rendered":"Hands On With Google Search\u2019s Answer to ChatGPT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last weekend, I<\/span> turned to Google Search for help figuring out how many stamps I needed to put on an 8-ounce piece of mail. (Naturally, I was sending a copy of the latest issue of WIRED!). It\u2019s the exact sort of question that I hoped Google Search\u2019s new generative AI feature, which I\u2019ve been testing for the past month, would solve much faster than I could through my own browsing.<\/p>\n

Google\u2019s clunkily named Search Generative Experience, SGE for short, infuses its search box with ChatGPT-like conversational functionality. You can sign up at Google\u2019s Search Labs. The company says it wants users to converse with its search chatbot, which launched to testers in May, to dive deeper into topics and ask more challenging and intuitive questions than they would type into a boring old query box. And AI-generated answers are meant to organize information more clearly than a traditional search results page\u2014for example, by pulling together information from multiple websites. Most of the world\u2019s web searches run through Google, and it\u2019s been developing AI technologies longer than most companies, so it\u2019s fair to expect a top-notch experience.<\/p>\n

So goes the theory. It turns out that in practice the new feature is so far more nuisance than aide. It\u2019s slow, ineffective, verbose, and cluttered\u2014more artificial interference than intelligence.<\/p>\n