# When You Should—and Shouldn’t—Use AI to Search the Web

- Source: WIRED
- Published: 2026-11-02T12:00:00+00:00
- Category: Tech
- Original: https://www.wired.com/story/when-you-should-and-shouldnt-use-ai-to-search-the-web/
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/when-you-should-and-shouldn-t-use-ai-to-search-the-web-5e2926/

Chatbots are often quite good at retrieving the information you want from the web. But sometimes you’ll get better results by typing your query into a good old search engine.

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