I guess the benchmarks disagree, but whenever I need to find specific information that does not easily show up with a web search, I try chatgpt, gemini and grok. Grok surfaces what I was looking for more often than the others.
Things like "find the github repo from 2017 that does $vague_thing".
Good question. You can actually see the searches it runs (momentarily) so testing could determine if it's using public search engines or a private system.
I guess the benchmarks disagree, but whenever I need to find specific information that does not easily show up with a web search, I try chatgpt, gemini and grok. Grok surfaces what I was looking for more often than the others.
Things like "find the github repo from 2017 that does $vague_thing".