I’m a bit surprised that a product manager for a search team would put forward arguments like this. ChatGPT isn’t a search engine, but that doesn’t mean it won’

I’m a bit surprised that a product manager for a search team would put forward arguments like this. ChatGPT isn’t a search engine, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be a significant part of a search engine product. Query correction is a common component in search engines. “Did you mean” is everywhere. It is just one component in a search pipeline. The stupid simple integration I’m sure Google will release is to put ChatGPT on top of the search results rather than the query itself. The question at that point is the economics of it: how much does it cost per query, and how much extra value can Google derive (or avoid lost value i.e. lost customers). This is an advantage that Google has over upstarts like Kagi and DDG: Google can keep their cost per query much lower since they don’t buy their results from other sources.