Ready to go beyond Google? Here’s how to use new generative AI search sites

Copilot and Opera pages showing the incorporation of AI technology are displayed in London. The rise of generative AI chatbots is giving people new and different ways to look up information. — AP

LONDON: It’s not just you. A lot of people think Google searches are getting worse. And the rise of generative AI chatbots is giving people new and different ways to look up information.

While Google has been the one-stop shop for decades – after all, we commonly call searches “googling” – its longtime dominance has attracted a flood of sponsored or spammy links and junk content fuelled by “search engine optimisation” techniques. That pushes down genuinely useful results.