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OpenAI Announces SearchGPT

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Re: OpenAI Announces SearchGPT

#11
I really dislike this as OpenAI has spent the past months signing sweetheart deals with any publisher willing to sell their content for training data.

It ties everything to their platform and returns a regurgitation of prioritized content without indicating any sort of sponsorship.

SEO will be replaced by cold hard cash, favors, and backroom deals

Re: OpenAI Announces SearchGPT

#12
Perhaps no-one could answer my question in [0] because many (including me) knew OpenAI would release their own search engine; eventually in [0].

"Who can tell me how and why is Perplexity.ai is worth $1BN? How much revenue are they making vs the amount of money they are burning? What is the justification of this valuation?" [0]

At this point with this unsurprising announcement, Perplexity is worth [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40313461

Re: OpenAI Announces SearchGPT

#13
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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

IMO, Perplexity does absolutely shine in a kind of search for what other engines don't compete at all. But it's way worse than normal engines for most of the things I search.

Anyway, comparing it by speed isn't useful at all.

Re: OpenAI Announces SearchGPT

#14
Search engines for me is keyword based. I want to type "pizza near " or " " and get sensible result. Anytime a search engines tries to interpret my query with something far semantically and ignoring my own keywords, it's a worse experience.

Re: OpenAI Announces SearchGPT

#17

Announcing a waitlist! :) Signed up either way, but really wish OpenAI announcements were for usable products.

Open ai always surprises. They are yet to completely release some of the features announced an year ago, but still announced a production ready model last week.

Maybe this is the difference between anthropic and open ai.. Anthropic has sharp focus on improving their core product and open ai is spread out.

Re: OpenAI Announces SearchGPT

#19
post #4

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

IMO, Perplexity does absolutely shine in a kind of search for what other engines don't compete at all. But it's way worse than normal engines for most of the things I search. Anyway, comparing it by speed isn't useful at all.

>Tractors are slower than cars, why would you use them?
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