How can this combo be good if Bing search still returns crap results? What about topics outside GPT-4 training data?

Have you tried it?

Boiled crap with extra salt is still just salty crap.

Bing hasn't changed their underlying indexing tech. Adding a very fancy layer of frosting on top doesn't help the styrofoam underneath.

Have you tried Bing+ChatGPT?

Yes. I know my comment is snarky, that was intentional.

Google's results have gotten so bad these days that at least a couple times a day when I'm coding I try the same queries about an error message or something on both sites out of desperation. Even then I usually find Bing to be even worse. Then I'll try the old "site:reddit.com" trick on google and finally get something useful half the time.

I've also recently used GPT to help with an issue I was dealing with. I was trying to change the default location of where postgresql keeps its data directly. GPT gave a very convincing solution, except that after another few hours of tinkering and searching turns out to be completely wrong.

sorry, but you may just be using it wrong. i've been doing very heavy green field systems infrastructure for my startup and gpt-4 is utterly indispensable for my postgres set up. huge time saver, and i was dealing with the exact issue of default data directory.

what you may not be doing is reading the explanation or pasting in your error messages. very rarely does it make an error that isn't trivial to overcome and in far less time than a hunt through "10 blue links".

phind.com blows the competition out of the water.. the results are amazing.