They're tools.

Not perfect, but one hell of alot better than regular-search, much of the time.

Feel free to downvote everything I ever say ( or have an LLM do it, if you want ), if that validity-isn't-collective-it-is-individual-content preference-of-granularity.

( same as with humans: anybody who says they're inherently-right because they're zionist/christofascist/islamist/fascist can go eat rocks:

validity is of individual-uprightness, not "inherent" on one's "group-membership".

Some individuals are monsters, some saints, but all humans are humans, & the granularity-of-judging has to be fine )

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It's a bold strategy Cotton, let's see if that works out for them

Simple web search just yields ads these days.

Yeah, but honestly Google search is crap these days. I use DDG but it's not a lot better.