In the days of the Romans, tech writers carefully explained all the reasons Hannibal would never get elephants over the mountains… More seriously, Google seems

In the days of the Romans, tech writers carefully explained all the reasons Hannibal would never get elephants over the mountains… More seriously, Google seems capable of learning from and acquiring similar technology. In that sense, I think their market position will remain. But ChatGPT is a threat to Google in the sense that it’s already drawing search volume away for some searches for some influential people. ChatGPT is much worse at some things than Google - timely relevance and over-confidence come to mind. But it is astonishingly better at a surprising number of search queries. Given the rate of improvement and the ability for young developers to plug into the ecosystem and make unexpected new stuff, Google has plenty to be concerned about.