I don’t know why anyone would use it as a search engine. It works fine as an assistant which can save you time but needs fact checking, like a human assistent needs as well. Maybe they manage the search engine part as well but a good search engine (like google used to be) will be hard to replace; it is much faster and more accurate (or rather; it doesn’t make up stuff even if it gives you fake results). I think it could work fine here in just providing a guess to a solution and links it found. It is often quite on point but needs fact checking.

I know quite a lot of people, if not allowed a google search and only get vscode to try something, that would take a stab at your typescript question and not be able to tell you that it is impossible.

Asking gpt to be a search engine is the same as asking a human currently really: I vaguely remember dates from WOII history, so when you ask me in a pub quiz, I will confidently tell you something and then where to find or look up the actual answer which might be slightly or completely different, depending on if I actually matched the right event with the right date and if I remember the day and month or not.