Jeff Su. Jeff opens with the spectrum the article hinges on — ChatGPT and Gemini at the "creative" end, Perplexity and Google Search at the "accurate, real-time, sourced" end — and then shows you the third option in action. The Olympics-medals comparison in the middle is the cleanest "this is when you ask a chatbot, this is when you Google" demo we've seen. After watching, you'll have a third tool in your search routine and a working rule for picking between the three.
Perplexity and Google interfaces will move, but the decision rule is stable: use sourced search for fresh facts and verification, use chat for drafting and reasoning, and check primary sources when accuracy matters.
Choose between search, answer engines and chatbots based on source needs, freshness and the cost of being wrong.
Basic web search comfort.
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