I've found that very generic queries like "best ski resorts in the US" seem woefully pouted by top 10 spam sites. LLMs do not want to give any useful info about that no matter how much prompting I seem to give.
I was looking for an app that does X,Y,Z recently and no amount of prompting for open source would get me anything but a handful of stock answers I would get from a random spam site.
Like I'll try to find the top burgers in midtown. Perplexity or ChatGPT online searching will always find "Top 10 Burgers in Midtown" by https://nycreviewed.com/ (their SSL certificate isn't even valid). But this itself is a GPT-generated list, and their list isn't even in midtown.
So now I end up with a list of 10 burger places that aren't in midtown.
Ithy kinda solves this by utilizing multiple search engines and LLMs, so spam sites like this are more likely to get filtered out somewhere in the pipeline.