Now that it can access the internet, why on earth would anyone Google anything and then go through all the SEO-optimized spam to finally find what they searched for?
Ask HN: Is ChatGPT + Plugins a Google Killer?
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#2I think it'll be interesting to see the afterparty for search, so to speak. Can search compete or complement? Who Are You is a good demo of some possibilities in that area and I like it so far.[1]
Sometimes it's nice to get an answer + web results.
1. https://you.com/search?q=who+are+you&tbm=youchat&cfr=chat
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#3Google is gonna have to sort out search ads otherwise yeah, when this tech improves and is more widely adopted then they're in serious trouble
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#4I wonder how this will pan out in the long term, sooner or later SEO targeting AI models might ruin that too.
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#5> why on earth would anyone Google anything
Because it's easier, faster, cheaper, and gives me qualified results from people I trust. You can pry my search engine from my cold, dead hands.
ChatGPT is a nice tool but utterly useless for many things people use search for. If you trust ChatGPT to read you a recipe from the internet, I prescribe you to 30 minutes of browsing an AI fearmongering subreddit.
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#6I wonder how this will pan out in the long term, sooner or later SEO targeting AI models might ruin that too.
I doubt it. It's funny to think about, but the moment this becomes a real issue, people will revert back to a hashed/archived version of "The Pile" and cherry pick all the updated training material.
I hate to be the cyberpunk party pooper, but it just doesn't seem like a threatening outcome to me.
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#7When the new bing launched, I decided to switch from Firefox/Google to a predominately Edge/Bing flow. It it is mostly fine, The Edge browser is a good web browser. But Bing just doesn't display results in the right order, where as Google does. They still have the sauce.
That being said, The progress that Bing is making is wonderful. Bing works great on granular searches though.
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#8When ChatGPT starts providing accurate answers to queries and gets opened to be used for free. I think Google will be at huge risk. Unless google surprises us.
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#9I think for me personally, it will be. Someone will figure out how to keep it reading until it corroborates its source a couple times, then report back.
I don't see why this can't be done right now, although perhaps it's not cost effective, who knows.
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#10Sometimes getting what you want quickly is a double edged sword. I used Google a lot in grad school, which brought up many relevant and helpful results. I switched to using books as much as possible. While slower, I learned lots of things I didn't know I didn't know, because I had to read through enough of the book to find what I needed. In the process, I learned things I would not have with a search engine.