LLMs vs Search

Lets compare how well ChatGPT stacks up against Google.

Lets say you want to know how to use the map function in JavaScript. lets ask each platform and compare their results…

Wow the first two results look very authoritative

Lets click on the first result and see what we get!

(The part that shows you how to use map is indicated by the red arrow)

Clearly this author is focused on writing a very feature rich & robust blog.

Now, lets try with ChatGPT

What a short answer….

There’s barely a paragraph before the model gives you an example of how to use map. I feel like I didn’t earn it….

Now lets compare all of these to the Mozilla documentation

Clearly Google is still the king of serving you the best results!