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I don’t think Google is a good competitor to OpenAI as a quality AI product is harmful to their search/ad business. OpenAI is perfectly happy killing the searc

I don’t think Google is a good competitor to OpenAI as a quality AI product is harmful to their search/ad business. OpenAI is perfectly happy killing the search/ad business because they aren’t in that market. They are happy to replace a $75B search market with a $20B AI chat market. Google not so much.

soligern 3y ago
My google search results now have a section on the top that an LLM generates along with the rest of the results. I don’t think they have to be separate.
mNovak 3y ago
My Google results already have an AI response integrated, similar to the knowledge graph answers. So seemingly they are head on competing; no reason they can't still display ads next to that.
- fooker 3y ago
  Would you still use it though if there's a better AI answer from someone else and there's isn't a confusingly placed ad next to it?
strangattractor 3y ago
Why do you think it is "harmful to their search/ad business"? I see as enhancement. It will not be long before Word and Google Docs is using AI to help people write copy, correct, and translate documents. Those are just the ones I can think of and I'm not that smart. Do you really think either Google or M$ will allow a 3rd party to control something that is integrated into their products? Only companies that are out of business do things like that.
- tguedes 3y ago
  Because there are less opportunities to show ads with a chatbot, especially if its voice based. From a user perspective it’s an enhancement. From a revenue perspective, it’s harmful
wrsh07 3y ago
Lol if they're doing 1 billion next year I bet the market is at least as big as search
summerlight 3y ago
SEO is slowly killing its search business and general AI is probably the only meaningful long-term solution to that threat. Compared to that, cannibalization inside Google is a more manageable problem.
alfalfasprout 3y ago
Except chatgpt isn't really a google replacement. Not only is the information routinely outdated, people are starting to finally realize just how often it's either blatantly or subtly wrong. Google is much better positioned to have AI enhanced search.
- nomel 3y ago
  What makes them much better than MS, with Bing, especially when a small company like perplexity.ai is providing something that's years ahead of Google?
ChatGTP 3y ago
Bing injects ads into their responses ?

soligern 3y ago

My google search results now have a section on the top that an LLM generates along with the rest of the results. I don’t think they have to be separate.

mNovak 3y ago

My Google results already have an AI response integrated, similar to the knowledge graph answers. So seemingly they are head on competing; no reason they can't still display ads next to that.

fooker 3y ago
Would you still use it though if there's a better AI answer from someone else and there's isn't a confusingly placed ad next to it?

strangattractor 3y ago

Why do you think it is "harmful to their search/ad business"? I see as enhancement. It will not be long before Word and Google Docs is using AI to help people write copy, correct, and translate documents. Those are just the ones I can think of and I'm not that smart. Do you really think either Google or M$ will allow a 3rd party to control something that is integrated into their products? Only companies that are out of business do things like that.

tguedes 3y ago
Because there are less opportunities to show ads with a chatbot, especially if its voice based. From a user perspective it’s an enhancement. From a revenue perspective, it’s harmful

wrsh07 3y ago

Lol if they're doing 1 billion next year I bet the market is at least as big as search

summerlight 3y ago

SEO is slowly killing its search business and general AI is probably the only meaningful long-term solution to that threat. Compared to that, cannibalization inside Google is a more manageable problem.

alfalfasprout 3y ago

Except chatgpt isn't really a google replacement. Not only is the information routinely outdated, people are starting to finally realize just how often it's either blatantly or subtly wrong. Google is much better positioned to have AI enhanced search.

nomel 3y ago
What makes them much better than MS, with Bing, especially when a small company like perplexity.ai is providing something that's years ahead of Google?

ChatGTP 3y ago

Bing injects ads into their responses ?