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Have we figured out a way to monetize AI-powered search yet? Presumably a product like this (or Perplexity) will ultimately be free, in which case they'll be forced to offer ads (bringing us back to Google's status quo) or perhaps worse, we'll have "product placement" in our AI-written results.
I've been using Perplexity for the past 3 months on a regular basis and it has replaced DDG for most use cases. It's really nice to have answers directly. Product comparison/updates/features: > What's the difference in speedo latex cap vs elastomeric? > What's new in iOS 18 Beta 4? Documentation (esp for non-mainstream tools): > How do i find the sioyek db files? How do I move it to my local iCloud folder instead? I'…
The fact that OpenAI is releasing a fancy UI instead of an improved model says something. I'm afraid GPT-5 won't be there any time soon.
- if they release a model “they’re just releasing models without use cases” - if they release safety guardrails “they are just doing this to avoid launching models” - if the release has a waitlist “they’re losing their velocity” - if they launch without a waitlist “they weren’t considering the safety implications” - if they hired a top researcher “they’re conspiring to out spend open source” - if they fire a top researcher “there’s too much politics taking over”
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?
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The problem with the Google one is accuracy. It told people to eat rocks. OpenAI just needs to beat that.
It appears from the demo example, OpenAI is not winning in the accuracy department either: https://x.com/kifleswing/status/1816542216678179083 > In ChatGPT's recent search engine announcement, they ask for "music festivals in Boone North Carolina in august" > There are five results in the example image in the ChatGPT blog post : > 1: Festival in Boone ... that ends July 27 ... ChatGPT's dates are when the box office…
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So you get the information out to people without even having to serve traffic? Sounds like a win? At the end of the day, if they want to book/buy anything they’ll have to go to your site
I guess collaborative sites like forums are likely to suffer greatly from this shift.
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 allo…
If that's the case, I think it's fair to say that we can skip websites and just host a service that chatgpt can talk to. If you're a restaurant, user can actually order right from the chat. or voice.
So, instead of giving 30% fee for DoorDash or Wolt about visibility, we start giving that fee for "some-AI-search-tool", and they don't allow selling food cheaper than you get by using the AI search process ordering. I don't like this era.
[0] https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Data+Connector++Replacement/147...
[1] https://chatgpt.com/share/e52dc4dd-77e6-48a5-a7ca-77e3dfa39e...
The fact that OpenAI is releasing a fancy UI instead of an improved model says something. I'm afraid GPT-5 won't be there any time soon.
New models are coming fast too.
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 allo…
If you want ChatGPT to say nice things about you (or bad things about your competitors), then you'll need to give it your version of information - at least that will be the line peddled to us. I've already received emails from SEO snake oil sellers now advertising themselves as being able to influence ChatGPT output.