A comparison of SearchGPT and Google for a specific use case: searching for high-quality paper flowers for a wedding. The creator tested both search engines with a natural language query about finding stores that sell premium paper flowers. SearchGPT returned mostly DIY flower projects, which didn't match the intent. The creator hypothesizes that SearchGPT rewrote the prompt to 'top online stores for high quality paper flowers' and then searched its own index. When the same rewritten query was tested on Google, it returned significantly better results with actual stores selling high-quality paper flowers. The creator concludes that while SearchGPT offers new search interaction patterns not available in Google, Google still delivers superior results and formatting for most traditional search queries.
SearchGPT is useful for searches where you don't know exactly what something is called
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SearchGPT returned mostly DIY flower projects instead of stores selling paper flowers
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SearchGPT rewrites user prompts into search titles and then searches its own engine
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Google returned better results than SearchGPT for the paper flowers query
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Google's results provided actual stores selling high-quality paper flowers
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SearchGPT opens up new search options not available in Google
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For most traditional searches, Google returns better results in a better format than SearchGPT
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