{"id":90633,"date":"2025-04-21T09:40:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=90633"},"modified":"2025-04-21T09:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:40:24","slug":"answer-engines-work-well-now-without-reasoning-delays-ai-assisted-search-based-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=90633","title":{"rendered":"Answer Engines work well now &#8211; without reasoning delays (AI assisted search-based research)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2025\/Apr\/21\/ai-assisted-search\/\">https:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2025\/Apr\/21\/ai-assisted-search\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Adam Engst calls them &#8220;answer engines&#8221; (AE) and that is a great term]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve been throwing all kinds of questions at [search enabled] ChatGPT (in o3 or o4-mini mode) and getting back genuinely useful answers grounded in search results.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Search-based research has worked in Perplexity for me for about a year. They really don&#8217;t get enough credit. The new chatGPT answer engine is much faster though.<\/p>\n<p>A key contributor is ability to search academic refs including the once ignored Allen Institute for AI&#8217;s Semantic Scholar.<\/p>\n<p>Legacy Google Search is a relic, legacy Big Publishing is &#8220;suddenly&#8221; very powerful, and the pivot of ad budgets to Answer Engines is going to accelerate search engine death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2025\/Apr\/21\/ai-assisted-search\/ [Adam Engst calls them &#8220;answer engines&#8221; (AE) and that is a great term] &#8220;I\u2019ve been throwing all kinds of questions at [search enabled] ChatGPT (in o3 or o4-mini mode) and getting back genuinely useful answers grounded in search results.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=90633\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-90633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90634,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90633\/revisions\/90634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}