Daring Fireball: ChatGPT: The First True Threat to Google Search?:
No need for a winky there. 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. It’s like finding a needle in a haystack sometimes, combing through the query results for a proper solution.
[…] The problem with Google Search today isn’t specific to programming questions, but the general problem of answering how-to questions in any subject.
试一段时间把 ChatGPT 当作我的主要搜索引擎，how to 的问题都找它，看看实际效果怎么样。
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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.