I still do that as well. My first resort is usually to search with Brave Search. I have and use search engine skills on the regular. However, there's no denying that using AI for more complex research is a lot more efficient and useful than scrolling through thirty Reddit threads, processes of troubleshooting on Tom's Hardware/Stack Overflow, and so on. Saves a lot of time if you can just run it in an AI.

I think there's still a use case for classic search engines (and internet research skills), as well as a use case for AI. I don't rely on it for everything. I also don't use AI for anything remotely private or sensitive, either.