Google hasn't ruined search results instead the services like chatGPT are generating so much spam and crap that Google search can't really keep up. So the service you are using itself is making google and internet worse, and eventually that would turn chatgpt bad as well. Its a vicious cycle.
Google has MOST definitely destroyed their search results. They did this long before ChatGPT.
This is repeated on like a daily basis anywhere online, and lots of people agree. All you will see are basically fake amazon review websites, or affiliate links in everything. The top 100 pages are pure garbage that they choose to favor over actual websites with real reputation.
At the very least, its a much more powerful google (dont nitpick my comparison, i realize it hallucinates). Getting the EXACT context of your question is something generalized search/articles online will NEVER give you, and you can read hundreds of pages of docs all day. This is good for certain things, but not when you want to know just a single setting or atomic piece of information. I want to get the smallest amount of accurate information very specifically to my problem, as I'm programming upwards of 10+ hours per day on my own companies as a one man show.
My search history on chat gpt includes a few things as examples:
- specific ways SOLID applies or doesn’t apply to non-OOP languages
- helping me quickly learn nuances of Lua for configuring neovim, specifically for weird syntax or things annoying to google (ie what does # mean) or what does a specific error mean within the context of the configuration
- more efficient top k algorithms than what I was building for learning purposes
- asking to break down big o complexity of certain types of sort functions and whether they differ from n log n
- helping me learn enough rust to do a bug fix Pr that was annoying me
- x vs s in neovim config for keymap modes
- figuring out why Ruby doesn’t implement descending ranges
Etc etc etc