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I don't use copilot (or windows), nor do I believe that LLMs are appropriate for use as a search engine replacement, but to be fair, google is really bad now, and I wouldn't be surprised if people are having a better experience using LLMs than google.
I think the other half of this is the confidence with which it’s programmed to give the answer. You don’t have to go through a couple individual answers from different sites and make a decision. It just tells you what to do in a coherent way, eliminating any autonomy you have in the decision process/critical thinking, of course. “Fix my sauce by adding lemon? Ok! Add a bay leaf and kill yourself? Can do!”
I have a feeling google is slowly reducing its own quality so using llms become the norm, since it's even easier to inject ads. Might be paranoia tho.
Google has already been caught out doing this. They reduced the quality of search results and placed ads and SEO (companies that pay to be first in the SEO rankings) ahead of other results. This was happening before they had a Gen AI LLM.
It's intent is to keep you on the search page longer, viewing ads so they can get more ad revenue.
They're an ad aggregation company first and foremost and search (along with their other suite of products) is how they serve those ads.