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    One Tech Tip: Ready to go beyond Google? Here's how to use new generative AI search sites

    by Kelvin Chan Feb 17, 2024 4 minutes
    Source: Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

    It's not just you. A lot people think Google searches are getting worse. And the rise of generative AI chatbots is giving people new and different ways to look up information.

    While Google has been the one-stop shop for decades — after all, we commonly call searches “googling” — its longtime dominance has attracted a flood of sponsored or spammy links and junk content fueled by “search engine optimization” techniques. That pushes down genuinely useful results.

    A recent study by German researchers suggests the quality of results from Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo is indeed declining. Google says its results are of significantly better quality than its rivals, citing measurements by third parties.

    Now, chatbots powered

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