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I've been using Gemini as an advance search engine. Their main search with AI isn't that useful but Gemini is. They're the only AI online I will use and just for searching/compiling. For work/development it is Qwen3.8. Then again now that I found out Pi has a web search function I've been using Gemini less and less.

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This really doesn’t match my experience, as Gemini was bafflingly bad at any online [re]research when I tried it 2-3 months ago. Not that google’s ai models seem particularly good at anything of late, but given the fact that google is still the king of the hill in search (even if they mostly serve you garbage, they still crawl everything) Gemini being very noticeably worse at searching things online than claude or chatgpt was a read head scratcher. I wonder how our usage patterns differ.

What do you mean by "Pi has a web search function"? Pretty sure Pi doesn't have one, except if you install some extension, but then Pi has every function.

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