I Replaced Google Search with AI for a Week — Here’s What Really Happened
Over seven days, the author replaced Google with AI as the sole search tool, using ChatGPT with built-in web search, plus Bing Chat and Perplexity, and banned Google queries. AI search delivers a single conversational answer with citations and no ads, instead of Google’s cluttered list of blue links. The AI maintained conversation context, enabling multi-step tasks like planning a dinner date by combining restaurant suggestions and showtimes in one thread. In terms of speed, AI often saved time on straightforward queries—for example, a 45-pound child’s car seat weight was answered in about 15 seconds. For real-time updates, AI lagged