CCATP #812 — Adam Engst on Answer Engines

Chit Chat Across the Pond · Allison Sheridan

April 29, 20251h 4m

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In this week's episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Adam Engst from TidBITS talks about how traditional search engines like Google and Bing no longer provide valuable information because they surface unreliable content first. Instead of using traditional search engines, he's been testing tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, and Claude to see how well they search the web. He calls these tools "Answer Engines" when they're used to search the web rather than generate their own responses to your prompts.

You can read Adam's extensive blog post about Answer Engines, and his see his research results at tidbits.com/...

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