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Hopefully this serves as an incentive to Google to improve their search results. I find GPT-4 works so much better for finding answers (even in cases when it's

Hopefully this serves as an incentive to Google to improve their search results. I find GPT-4 works so much better for finding answers (even in cases when it's wrong) than searching Google, especially for trivial ones. Add plugin features like code interpreter and the usefulness is not even close for most of the cases I use it. It's always worth verifying the answers, but that's also true for google results, and with GPT I don't have to dig through mountains of trash advertising sites to get to something useful. Really, I'd just like to see Google as useful as it once was.

safety1st 3y ago
Probably it won't, at least not at first. Google's customers are advertisers. GPT thus far is a subscription-based service, it's not competing for Google's customers. So what if Google has a few less users? Since Google Ads is auction-based, it means a few less impressions will be available, and the cost of impressions will go up. Advertisers will pay a bit more for less but Google's sort of the only game in town so it won't make a huge difference. Now if Bing achieves 30% market share on the back of its great GPT integration or something, maybe that gets Google off its ass. I think LLMs might be the beginning of the end for Google but they're so entrenched it'll take 20 years.