One of the most common online activities you do is probably using a search engine — such as Google — to find websites and information. 

In my last column I went over ways to become a search master by refining your search terms or using tools such as image search, Lens, or Circle to Search. However, there is another search method that is free, revolutionary, controversial, and loved or hated by countless internet searchers.

Artificial intelligence is the giant monster or marvel, depending on how you look at it, which seems to not only be affecting everything from customer relations to farming but also creating a revolution in internet searching.

ChatGPT (https://chatgpt.com/) was the original AI chatbot which could create poems and images or engage in a long discussion, but it couldn’t search the internet. Google and Microsoft changed everything by embedding AI into their search tools which could use the incomprehensible processing power of AI to search the internet and distil the info at countless websites into an AI summary. 

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