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The less results is a feature. Again when it works the currated list should be stuff you would have landed on by evaluating snippets. Look. If I search for something I do a search then scroll through results. I may or may not find some links to go to. I go to them and if any are promising I maybe make them a new tab but if not I modify the wording of the search and this thing can repeat a few times but usually less than three. In the end I tend to have about three websites I use. The chatbot acts like asking someone to look into it. When they get back to you they give you the "answer" but you talk with them and go over what they found to make sure. Why? Because if you were ok with them going forward then you would just give them that role. Its the same thing with the chatbot. Its like an assitant but you are responsible for the output and need to evaluate it. It can save time but does not always. I have asked someone to do something and after evaluation I have to do it myself because it was not good enough and I go send them to do something else or have them shadow me while I do the thing. The nice thing with the chatbot is you don't need to make sure its time is being utilized efficiently so you don't need to give it a new task and it does not have the capability of shadowing you (if it did then jobs would really be in trouble.)
Normal Google search is already curated.
And when you're done with the list of curated results and you want more? You click "next page" to get the next page of curated results. 10 curated results at a time.
The chat bot is NOT like asking someone to look into it, it just LOOKS like it. Don't anthropomorphize chatbots, because then they trick you into thinking they're doing something they're not.
You evaluate the references they send you, but you don't evaluate the references they don't send you.
This is a problem with Google SEO too, but LLM equivalent is already a problem and getting worse.
I disagree. Its using a similar process when evaluating what makes a good result. Im not anthropomorphizing it I am making a comparison and such things are about comparing things that have similarities but are not the actual thing. I don't think its a human. Again its why I say its another level of abstraction. Your response here would suggest people should stop looking at search results that are organized and go through each and every result not utilizing the algorithms that are looking for that best fit. The chatbot is just more algorithms. Look I don't care if you use it or not this whole thing was just me saying I see value in the same way I have seen value in each level of technology as it has come. Don't get me wrong I don't use it for majority of search just like I have not embraced technology before but I do realize at some point I likely will be utilizing it extensively although hopefully with more options that are as not mainstream and if im lucky local.