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People seem to think that this integration will turn the tables on Google. But the fact is that Google has such a wide reach by default on browsers and devices,
by binarymax 4y ago
People seem to think that this integration will turn the tables on Google. But the fact is that Google has such a wide reach by default on browsers and devices, that this will likely not make a difference.
Google has a staggering 92% of searches globally[0]. Most people don’t know how to change their search engine. Bard can be a slow rollout, and if done right their search platform is not at risk.
[0] https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share
- mirekrusin 4y agoPeople said same kind of things in the past, ie. about Nokia when iPhone came out etc.
- binarymax 4y agoI’ll admit anything is possible, but it’s highly unlikely. It’s not like Google was caught completely unaware and incapable, they’ve been refining this tech for a while internally.
- impulser_ 4y agoThe big difference here is that you had too buy either the Nokia or the iPhone. Google is preinstalled on billions of phones for free, and this will not be changing anytime soon. How are you going to get millions of old folk that dont care about Bing vs Google to change the default search engine on their smartphone if you are Bing?
- goodlinks 4y agoDont microsfots pockets run deep enough to offer the same deal? Until now it may have been futile..
- threeseed 4y agoApple cares about experience just as much as money. Their own search engine isn't that far off Bing and both are way behind Google.
- galleywest200 4y agoGiven Apple's stance on "privacy" I do not think this is fully true. If DuckDuckGo or another privacy focused vendor offered more cash than Google does, Apple would take it.
- Kye 4y ago>> "Apple cares about experience just as much as money." On the other hand, it's the perfect opportunity to put the 16 ML cores in my phone to work. Local Siri uses a generic model today, but I would use an Apple search engine if it could deliver genuinely personalized results instead of the SEO wasteland Google offers.
- threeseed 4y agoYou do use an Apple search engine everyday if you use Safari. It's what powers the Suggestions feature.
- threeseed 4y agoExcept that this is not even remotely comparable. ChatGPT on its own is not a replacement for Google Search and spending more than a few minutes with either makes it pretty obvious that it isn't. Integration with Bing would get you part way there but still it simply hasn't got the rich database that Google has e.g. Map POIs, YouTube, Ad partner data sharing etc.
- mirekrusin 4y agoI know right? It doesn't even have a keyboard.
- nonethewiser 4y agoIf it werent for google maps I'd probably happily switch to bing.
- binarymax 4y agoSure. I don't use Google either and haven't for years. But most of the world is not us. We are a very small minority. Most people are using Google by default, and will continue to do so for many reasons, not least of which is that they are so entrenched. Every mobile device in the western world defaults to Google search...and changing it is not trivial for most people.
- seydor 4y agoIndeed google controls all the entry points to the web That's why MS should add the chat to windows