[I want to buy a new SUV which brand is best?]

This is a follow-up to [Perplexity, Ads, and SUVs (weblink)](/weblinks/2023/06/27/perplexity-ads-and-sUVs). The screenshots below are made with GoFullPage (which seems to be struggling with the ChatGPT page).

Here are the initial/top results from various generative search tools for the query: [ I want to buy a new SUV which brand is best? ]

- @grimmelmann2014speech
Bard [ I want to buy a new SUV which brand is best? ]
A Bard[I want to buy a new SUV which brand is best?] search. Screenshot taken at: 2023-06-28 10:11:44

ChatGPT.GPT-4 [ I want to buy a new SUV which brand is best? ]
A ChatGPT.GPT-4[I want to buy a new SUV which brand is best?] search. Screenshot taken at: 2023-06-28 10:14:11

Google.SGE [ I want to buy a new SUV which brand is best? ]
A Google.SGE[I want to buy a new SUV which brand is best?] search. Screenshot taken at: 2023-06-28 10:14:58

Andi [ I want to buy a new SUV which brand is best? ]
A Andi[I want to buy a new SUV which brand is best?] search. Screenshot taken at: 2023-06-28 10:15:17

Bing [ I want to buy a new SUV which brand is best? ]
A Bing[I want to buy a new SUV which brand is best?] search. Screenshot taken at: 2023-06-28 10:15:31

You.com [ I want to buy a new SUV which brand is best? ]
A You.com[I want to buy a new SUV which brand is best?] search. Screenshot taken at: 2023-06-28 10:12:38

You.com.GPT-4 [ I want to buy a new SUV which brand is best? ]
A You.com.GPT-4[I want to buy a new SUV which brand is best?] search. Screenshot taken at: 2023-06-28 10:17:38

I skipped the interactive flow in Perplexity AI's Copilot, which may have changed the results. Perplexity AI's Copilot interactive flow asking clarifying questions about a query.
Perplexity AI.Copilot [ I want to buy a new SUV which brand is best? ]
A Perplexity AI.Copilot[I want to buy a new SUV which brand is best?] search. Screenshot taken at: 2023-06-28 14:53:18

Footnotes

  1. For more on advice and search, see @grimmelmann2014speech [p. 950]:

    A good search engine advises its users, helping them to become active listeners, and enabling them to act autonomously.