Literally can be though. Prompt it correctly and it'll search you out things far more effectively than Google's "optimization and algorithm" will. Specific industries have more specified search engines than raw Googling, but we aren't robots and you'll sometimes not be thinking outside your own brain's algorithm to fully take in the breadth of information that might be available to you if you just knew about it. Or things completely out of the ballpark that could be relevant.
Its a great sidekick to jump off of and get your own ball rolling, but its still a sidekick and shouldn't be trusted beyond that first foot forward.
AI is not a search engine though
Literally can be though. Prompt it correctly and it'll search you out things far more effectively than Google's "optimization and algorithm" will. Specific industries have more specified search engines than raw Googling, but we aren't robots and you'll sometimes not be thinking outside your own brain's algorithm to fully take in the breadth of information that might be available to you if you just knew about it. Or things completely out of the ballpark that could be relevant.
Its a great sidekick to jump off of and get your own ball rolling, but its still a sidekick and shouldn't be trusted beyond that first foot forward.
Google shitting up its search results doesn't change the nature of what a LLM is. It's not searching, it's predicting.