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Search engine replacement is probably the only use case of AI for me - for the times when I don't know exactly what I'm searching for so the conversation style is helpful.
Is it the conversational style? or that search engines have been designed to be actively worse to keep your eyeballs spending more time looking at advertisements now?
I used to be good at googling information I needed. Then Google changed what googling does.
Don't use Google. DDG works with keyword searches and you get exactly what you expect.
I do use DDG as my default. I was using "googling" for the sake of making a witty remark. Even so, the results are usually comparable - the first couple dozen results are mostly AI/SEO slop.
Oh, go to your DDG options and turn the AI slop off.
Also add "-AI" without the quotes to the end of your search. Booleans still work with DDG at least, I don't know if they do on Google anymore.