Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end?

Touchscreens are the worst interface option. The feedback of feeling a button, or anything made for the job, is better than typing without specific feedback onto a screen. It won out because of you don’t have a set interface it’s bettor.

Now for search, chat gpt will likely always be less reliable than a list of results you can vet yourself for content and source.

That said… I don’t think people care about truth that much these days so one response that feels correct is could be good enough for most. Terrifying times we live in folks.

Re: Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end?

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Post by chias » Wed, Feb 08, 2023, 9:36 PM UTC

While Google certainly has its faults and I am frustrated with its trajectory, I would bet money that this is an article pushing the nonsensical notion that AI language models will replace search engines.

Edit: based on the subtitle, it seems like I am correct.

Re: Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end?

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Post by Invictus0 » Wed, Feb 08, 2023, 9:36 PM UTC

Do you people really want AI generated answers? As if the internet wasn't bland enough as it is. This forum has been soapboxing for years about the longtail of blogs and BBs and niche sites, right up to the moment that Bing got chatgpt.

Re: Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end?

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Post by rexreed » Wed, Feb 08, 2023, 9:37 PM UTC

Judging from the decreasing quality of Google Search I'd say they've been doing it to themselves over the past decade regardless of large language models or not. However, that being said, Google is still super dominant and when people say "SEO" they generally mean Google search results. And until my mom stops using Google as the default search, I wouldn't count them out of being the dominant search engine for some time.