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The change from website oriented search engines to AI driven answering services seems to me to have a lot of parallels to the way highways left regional towns a
by OhioMan2943 4y ago
The change from website oriented search engines to AI driven answering services seems to me to have a lot of parallels to the way highways left regional towns and businesses destitute. I believe this is going to shrink an already shrinking internet.
- shostack 4y agoI just hope it unlocks summarizing across websites. I'd love to be able to query "what's the general consensus about XYZ, with lists of pros and cons. Exclude obvious affiliate sites, and sites that sell this thing."
- jacquesm 4y agoOn the plus side that might give back some of the old web. After all, all of the junk, SEO and various webspam is only there because Google measures it, as soon as you start measuring something you influence it and any metric ever invented to rank web sites eventually made itself useless. So if search engines 'move on' then maybe the value of a link will increase again.
- gernb 4y agoseems to me the seo peeps will just step up their game by employing chatgpt to spam everything. chatgpt search will be mostly useless if it doesn't provide upto date answers which means it has to constantly have the latest news, blogs, press releases feed to it so when you ask for a summary of some event that just happened or some new tech it gives you an answer. the same incentives apply. Likely there will be a race for it to start recommendating products . Either directly, Bing still has to make money, or indirectly buy trying to influence it into answers with product placement