Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google

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60. Thank you

I appreciate you considering what I had to say.

That's a fair distinction, and I think it may explain why people have such different reactions to AI search.

I don't disagree that AI can cut through the clutter. In fact, I suspect its popularity is partly evidence that the clutter exists. If plain search were still delivering concise, relevant results as efficiently as it once did, there would be much less demand for AI summaries in the first place.

Where my hesitation comes in is that I often use search not just to retrieve an answer, but to discover what I didn't know to ask. I may be looking for obscure sources, minority viewpoints, independent experts, or details that don't fit neatly into a single synthesized response. In those situations, the clutter is frustrating, but the process of exploration still matters to me.

So perhaps we're describing two different use cases rather than contradicting one another. For common questions, AI may indeed "cut to the chase." For exploratory research into the long tail of human knowledge, I still miss the older style of search that more readily surfaced unexpected and independent sources.