OpenAI Announces SearchGPT

Perplexity has some competition!

I wonder how good this will be. My employer gave us Perplexity Pro for free, and I removed Safari from my home screen and pinned Perplexity to force myself to use it… I found it really really slow and didn’t really add to my search experience

People with websites used to have a clear reason to allow bots to crawl and index our sites. Google and everyone sent us traffic. There was something of a trade off. Google has been slowly changing that trade by displaying more and more of our sites on google.com rather than sending people our way.

As far as I can see there's no sending people away from SearchGPT, it just gives answers. I can't see any reason to allow AI crawlers on my sites, all they do is crawl my site and slow things down. I'm glad that most of them seem to respect robots.txt.

Finally, the inevitable product we all knew was coming: going after Google’s core biz

I like the follow up questions feature but how is it different than chat gpt - just providing links as well?

This just represents such a stark lack in originality and lends even more credo to "OpenAI wants to copy its customers"