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The previously sensible advice to never use ChatGPT for search needs to be rethought - GPT-5 in thinking mode is shockingly good at running searches now simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/r...

simonwillison.netGPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (aka Research Goblin) is shockingly good at search“Don’t use chatbots as search engines” was great advice for several years... until it wasn’t. I wrote about how good OpenAI’s o3 was at using its Bing-backed search tool back …

Simon Willison

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7 Sept 2025

Follow-up note about a Google's new "AI mode" - it's actually very good! Massively different from "AI overviews" which are terrible simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/7/a...

simonwillison.netAI mode is good, actuallyWhen I wrote about how good ChatGPT with GPT-5 is at search yesterday I nearly added a note about how comparatively disappointing Google's efforts around this are. I'm glad I …

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Seems extremely fast, though not necessarily better than Perplexity

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