"Measuring money turns out to be easier than measuring intelligence." Don't ever change, El Reg.

THE web developer, yes.

That's subjective! I made a song with that sound in 1998. It was called "Net Pet" and it did pretty well on mp3.com.

There's a hip-hop song I like that uses the dial-up sound as a motif: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfhOWslHDSs

The dial-up sound just evokes that early Internet feel so perfectly...

Worked as expected, for all the states I voted in.

I don't know, but I really hope it's not that.

Even works in reader mode.

Lovely story.

fixed, they must've called simonw.

Yes, the bias created by being informed is exactly the point of the study.

Google search is dead.

Nah. If you actually try this, you'll see it's not that good.

I thought Google's given Bard access to the internet?? I guess people still don't think to use Bard over ChatGPT

Even the Bard UI is worse. Being able to read the ChatGPT output as it's generated, instead of staring at a blank screen, is a massive time saver. And, I prefer ChatGPT trying stuff rather than Bard telling me that 'it can't do that right now' and 'we're trying to get better'. I've tried Bard, it's just not worth it.

> Being able to read the ChatGPT output as it's generated, instead of staring at a blank screen, is a massive time saver.

There's an option in Bard's settings to enable real time replies.

My experience is different. I think Bard is giving better answers than chatgpt so I really use it daily even more than google search.

Better than the free or the paid chatgpt?

I use everything to create newsletter/podcast content and Bard is consistently the best for me. Then Claude and Bing, and ChatGPT last. By a mile. I have ChatGPTPlus, with chat access to GPT4 but not API access to GPT4.

Just got access to Bard API and hoping that continues delivering what I have been happy with...

Unfortunately for Google, Bard is irrelevant by means of being late and inferior to GPT-4

Bing has had GPT-4 + internet search forever. It hasn't killed Google yet.

Yes but it leaves conversations when it wants to. Also one time I have got source links which it (transparently) labeled as "ads". AI chat based advertising might be the next thing, be careful.

At the very least we need free and unlimited access to even think about dethroning Google.

Has been for a while due to Bing chat.