I stopped using google as my default search engine and use brave search instead now. Googles AI summary is worse than useless. The first example I tried perfectly illustrates my point. The first paragraph of their AI summary links to 8 different sources. How do those 8 sources relate to the claim? I have no way of knowing without reading all 8 sources. Also, the AI summary takes a longer time to load than the main search results, and it’s lazy loading animation is distracting. I could not find any way to turn it off.
Meanwhile, with brave search I can turn off the AI summary, although I didn’t feel like I had to because the summary was adding value by making it easy to see how the claim was related to the source (sorry no image included, because I don’t know how to take screenshots of mouse-hover-over features like that, which tend to close when you screenshot them).
Meanwhile, I haven’t noticed large quality differences between brave search and google. I also tried Kagi, but I could not find any quality differences compared to brave search (although I also didn’t explicitly create a benchmark for myself). If I try to find something so obscure it isn’t indexed on brave search, I mostly use GPT-5 with search or deep research enabled.
I stopped using google as my default search engine and use brave search instead now. Googles AI summary is worse than useless. The first example I tried perfectly illustrates my point. The first paragraph of their AI summary links to 8 different sources. How do those 8 sources relate to the claim? I have no way of knowing without reading all 8 sources. Also, the AI summary takes a longer time to load than the main search results, and it’s lazy loading animation is distracting. I could not find any way to turn it off.
I noticed the following paragraphs go into more detail about how the sources relate to the claim. So my example wasn’t well chosen.