Bard is Google’s public tool in the very highly competitive artificial intelligence chatbot space. Another popular player in this field, as we have mentioned before, is OpenAI’s ChatGPT. So, simply put, Google Bard is yet another artificial intelligence-powered chatbot in the market. It was launched in early 2023. Back then, it was an experiment that was fundamentally based on a conversational large language model. You enter a text as a prompt for Bard, and then Bard generates a response to the prompts you have entered. The biggest strength of Google Bard lies in its ability to access the internet and leverage the power of Google search for generating its responses.

What can you use Google Bard for?

You can do a lot of different things using Google Bard. It is a smart, intelligent tool that can be used to explore ideas, compose text, write code, and much more. We’d say, look at Bard like an intelligent friend or colleague, and ask them something accordingly. So, say you want to brainstorm some ideas, or you want to research some topic and want to find some books or related concepts or information related to that topic, or you want to draft an email to someone, or you want to create an outline for say a project or a proposal, or you want to paraphrase or summarize some text, or you want to write some code, or you want to debug some code, Google Bard can do it for you.

Now, because Bard has access to Google Search, one thing Bard can do very well is to streamline the search for you. Imagine, you are planning to buy a new mobile phone. Ideally, you will look for a particular brand and model, then dig up all the specifications and reviews for it across different websites, and then, maybe compile a Google Doc that would contain all the information that can help you do a comparative. You keep doing this for every brand and model you are interested in, till you have all the information and can make the choice that is right for you. But with Google Bard, you don’t need to follow this cumbersome process

Google Search essentially functions on the back of keywords. The links the search delivers in response to the search query are pulled up against how relevant the particular link would be for the user’s search query based on the keywords. There are also featured snippets of information that Google Search feels would answer the user query best.

In contrast, Google Bard responds to natural language prompts. The response to the prompt is a string of interactions, it is like a chat conversation, and you can also expand, clarify, or rephrase that response. You can’t do this in Search. Also, in Search, you would need to click on individual links to get the information you need, it is not directly presented to you like Bard would.