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Why not? My ChatGPT to google usage is easily 10 to 1 at this point. How long will it be until everyone is basically doing the same thing as I am?
by osigurdson 2y ago
Why not? My ChatGPT to google usage is easily 10 to 1 at this point. How long will it be until everyone is basically doing the same thing as I am?
- yifanl 2y agoThat would only be meaningful if ChatGPT made as much money as Google did per query (as is, I believe they lose money on each, so they can hardly make it up in volume).
- osigurdson 2y agoThey could throw an ad platform on it in 5 minutes if they wanted to.
- onlyrealcuzzo 2y agoLOL It took Google 15 years to build an ad empire. And they still have trouble filling ad slots on YouTube. You think ChatGPT is just going to "turn on" $100B in online ad spending overnight? That's not how it works.
- osigurdson 2y agoWhy do you think it would take so long to throw an ad system on ChatGPT? Personally, if I could buy OpenAI stock at 100B market cap right now, I would back up the truck.
- riffraff 2y agoadding ads is easy, adding ads that work is not. Google can easily monetize a search for "dentist in $city" where your intent is to spend money, OpenAI would have to monetize "sum up this email" where money is not involved at all.
- osigurdson 2y agoIf you have enough eyeballs on your pixels you can make money on ads. They are just deliberately choosing not to do it (Altman has made statements to this effect).
- riffraff 2y ago> If you have enough eyeballs on your pixels you can make money on ads. sure, but Google makes _way_ more money than X or Reddit or Pornhub, not all eye gazes are the same.
- yifanl 2y agoWhich would slow down user uptake, I imagine.
- consteval 2y agoIMO this is because Google is kind of shit now, because of ChatGPT and LLM spam in general. It's hard to find information on Google that isn't shallow attention thievery. I mean, finding a recipe that doesn't start with "the year is 1974. I was just born" is near impossible these days.
- throwaway48476 2y agoGoogle seo spam predates LLM's.
- consteval 2y agoRight, but it's undeniable that LLM's are a core part, if not the most important part, of modern SEO spam. Particularly because they're much harder to spot.