The generative AI piece in these kinds of solutions is just the last step which is to take the list of nearest neighbour sentences or paragraphs and generate an answer from that set.
So I think these class of search engines should actually be called something other than generative AI search engines.
It's not quite that simple. The model occasionally inserts code snippets that it generates itself if it can't find one good enough in the provided web context.
So I think these class of search engines should actually be called something other than generative AI search engines.
Maybe generative AI powered search summaries?