Like, for example I have a specific issue with a digital audio converter by a popular brand but their customer service is awful. A simple google prompt followed by site:reddit.com would yield solutions almost every time. In fact I would say I did 90% of my googling that way. How do I break this cycle and do you feel this is one of the biggest challenges we’re facing? If anything, Reddit remains the biggest repo of easily accessible solutions for anything. We’re seeing right now what happens if this is being taken away by subs going private. Vanilla Google is a shitshow.
A detail to remember with this, however, is that it’s not a search engine, but a robust text composition/“generation” tool. I recognize that it does tend to get certain info correct rather consistently, but it’s both error-prone and a basic misuse of it to use it for research imo.