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I love that people are not recognizing the fact that Google has been doing this ChatGPT stuff (to an extent) for years now. "People also ask", "Featured Snippet

I love that people are not recognizing the fact that Google has been doing this ChatGPT stuff (to an extent) for years now. "People also ask", "Featured Snippets", the sidebar card panel for big topics. All Google has to do now is redo their UI a bit to make you the user feel like they are experiencing the ChatGPT experience. It's also obscenely hilarious how much hype there is around this whole topic, knowing very well that neither Google or Bing will turn their search engines into the actual ChatGPT interface. You think Google is about to wipe out its ad business to appease a small portion of its userbase? Think again.

webscout 4y ago
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mejutoco 4y ago
> redo their UI a bit to make you the user feel like they are experiencing the ChatGPT experience. > You think Google is about to wipe out its ad business to appease a small portion of its userbase? These 2 points are in conflict, because of the innovators dilemma: they might be hesitant to cannibalize a good business.
bbor 4y ago
Why couldn’t you show ads next to the responses as usual? AFAICT the main new feature here is AI responses next to/above links, and if there’s links on a page then there could be ads. Either that or they switch google search to display ads and everyone looses their minds at once
revskill 4y ago
Because Google hides it intentionally, so less people notice it. Why hide ? Because it's not as "smart" as real ChatGPT. You can think like an add-on.
jasmer 4y ago
I think this sentiment is misplaced. Both Google and MS are about to rewire their businesses in a more than superficial way to accomodate this kind of 'search'. Yes - a lazy incumbency won't want to adjust their algorithms - but MS will force their hand. ChatGPT is a bit like what we always imagined or wanted out of Siri and it represents a new dimension of quality interaction. Google was 'search' really now it's 'finder' chatGPT is like 'helper' and they will be a bit fused. The challenge is going to be how can Google remain true to search and find, whilst overlaying 'interactive helper'.

webscout 4y ago

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mejutoco 4y ago

> redo their UI a bit to make you the user feel like they are experiencing the ChatGPT experience. > You think Google is about to wipe out its ad business to appease a small portion of its userbase? These 2 points are in conflict, because of the innovators dilemma: they might be hesitant to cannibalize a good business.

bbor 4y ago

Why couldn’t you show ads next to the responses as usual? AFAICT the main new feature here is AI responses next to/above links, and if there’s links on a page then there could be ads. Either that or they switch google search to display ads and everyone looses their minds at once

revskill 4y ago

Because Google hides it intentionally, so less people notice it. Why hide ? Because it's not as "smart" as real ChatGPT. You can think like an add-on.

jasmer 4y ago

I think this sentiment is misplaced. Both Google and MS are about to rewire their businesses in a more than superficial way to accomodate this kind of 'search'. Yes - a lazy incumbency won't want to adjust their algorithms - but MS will force their hand. ChatGPT is a bit like what we always imagined or wanted out of Siri and it represents a new dimension of quality interaction. Google was 'search' really now it's 'finder' chatGPT is like 'helper' and they will be a bit fused. The challenge is going to be how can Google remain true to search and find, whilst overlaying 'interactive helper'.