There’s already a better search engine than Google. It’s YouTube.

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There are times when YouTube is the internet’s best source for answers to people's queries, writes New York Times columnist Farhad Manjoo.

Is ChatGPT better than Google? New York Times columnist Farhad Manjoo doesn’t think so—at least not yet. But there’s already a better Google: Youtube. Despite its problems, Manjoo writes, the video platform is often “the internet’s best source for answers to your queries.” Want to learn to make a souffle? Search Youtube. Fix a clogged drain? Search Youtube. Revisit the fundamentals of chemistry? “Do yourself a favor and watch the M.I.T. professor Donald Sadoway’s intro course.” Where? Youtube again.

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