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It's replaced Google for the "what's that called" tool.

Google used to be good at that task, but it's sucked for the last four years or so. Whenever they gave up on search and leaned into sludge content plus ads.

ChatGPT is better than Google ever was anyway.

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GPT is better than Google for something like, 'how do I implement nested blog post comments in Flask'

And much worse than Google for, "site:miguelgrinberg.com nested comments"

Unfortunately I don't know the equivalent of Miguel for everything I need to know, so on average I suppose GPT is better. However it also means that you may never discover the Miguel of your domain!

Dude! I just did that search and now I'm reading Miguel's blog. Good stuff! Thank you!

You are most welcome. Now how do we make a search engine that finds the Miguel for every domain?

I hope it's going to remain that way, but the realistic cynic in me tells me that using ChatGPT to discover stuff is going to increasingly suck more now that people are going to try to target ChatGPT for SEO.

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