Search is great when you know what you're looking for.

I want a "how do I?" function alongside search that will explain their product to me. Especially since so many SaaS products have absolutely terrible UX - it looks lovely, but you cannot discover anything, and you cannot intuit how to do something. Menus auto-hide, scroll bars don't work so you don't realise there's another half of the page you're looking at, buttons don't have tooltips or any explanation of what they do, icons are lovely but don't actually describe the thing they do, colours are lovely but I'm colourblind so aren't helpful, there's no useful help page for "this is how to do the really obvious thing you're trying to do...", or at least not one that I can find using the search terms that make sense to me.

I think I'm at 1 success out of 15 attempts for Gemini to explain how to do something in Google Sheets/Docs, though, so I'm not hopeful that anyone can actually implement this.

Proper search is far more powerful. I can set the weights for the results to various parameters, focusing on certain metadata in particular. Sad to see popular search tools have gone stupid in recent years. But search is still very powerful and Imo ai is no replacement for good search. An example of a powerful search engine is pubmed and the logic you can craft in your queries.

Except the LLM runs a bunch of searches and summarizes what it finds… what happens when they have no search engine to piggy back off of?