Gemini's live search is a trap and a gift

Here's a small, true thing about an AI tool that everyone oversells.

Gemini pulls live web results straight into the answer, and I lean on that more than the feature list.

The moment it let me down was specific: mixes a confident wrong date in with the right ones. That's the kind of failure you remember.

What changed my habit wasn't a new model. It was realizing I'd stopped double-checking, and the one time it mattered, it showed.

None of this means switch tools. It means know the one you've got.