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> Tools like Perplexity will turn Google into Altavista in the next 2 to 3 years No it won't. a) Google has a dominant advantage in raw data. Map POIs from th
by threeseed 2y ago
> Tools like Perplexity will turn Google into Altavista in the next 2 to 3 years
No it won't.
a) Google has a dominant advantage in raw data. Map POIs from their decade long investment in data quality and breadth. Shopping that has direct integration from almost all ecommerce stores. And a real-time crawling infrastructure where their index is constantly updated. Perplexity, Claude etc are dealing with typically year old information making it useless for many searches.
b) Google is a business. It runs the world's most successful and sophisticated ads platform that exists today. Advertisers demand micro-targeting, high volume and very high ROAS. Those that have tried to replicate this e.g. Reddit, X, Pinterest have all failed miserably. Which is why they are treated as purely brand awareness platforms. Nice to have not a must have. So will see how long Perplexity survives once its VC money dries up.
- leoh 2y agoNothing like rebutting a black and white assertion with a black and white assertion
- Jensson 2y agoGoogle still being dominant in 2-3 years is far more plausible than not.
- hadlock 2y agojust in the last week I've managed to break myself of the muscle-memory of reaching for Google to answer random questions that pop up in my daily life, in favor of LLM. About 90% of the time the LLM satisfies my query on the first try, 98% of the time by the second or third. With the enormous benefit of no ads
- threeseed 2y agoIt is black or white: either Google exists in a decade or it doesn't. I would much rather take the bet that Perplexity doesn't exist.
- tim333 2y agoAlso Google also have AI answers which are ok if not the same as Perplexity's. Plus they invented transformers and the like.