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Chatgpt search looks great from this, but if it does end up replacing Google, the biggest losers will be sites like tomsguide.com. It's hard to see how they cou
by esperent 2y ago
Chatgpt search looks great from this, but if it does end up replacing Google, the biggest losers will be sites like tomsguide.com. It's hard to see how they could continue to make money when I can get the same info directly from the search engine and never need to open their site again.
They even mention in the "best tvs" example that Google returns a link to one of their articles on tomsguide.com, while ChatGPT just shows a list of tvs with images. And yet, somehow they don't bring this issue up anywhere in the article.
- pupppet 2y agoExactly. This is great for the user until the incentive for anyone to put out new content completely dries up, then not so much.
- OutOfHere 2y agoIt depends. When someone is doing a real serious search, they will check the linked references, in which case they will visit TomsGuide if it's a cited reference. In contrast, when someone is doing a non-serious casual search, they typically won't visit the linked site. Overall, it will cut the visits by ~80%, but that takes us back to the early 2000s level of page hits, when good sites like TomsGuide could then still thrive.