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My search habits have evolved quite fast - when I search for something now I first ask for quick results from Chatgpt, which gives me pointers I then drill down

My search habits have evolved quite fast - when I search for something now I first ask for quick results from Chatgpt, which gives me pointers I then drill down on. Google's revenue for 2024 was 350 billion. I know it's not all Google ads, but s lot of it is. When you follow a link from Chatgpt, it always has a utm_source=Chatgpt in it, so companies are quickly learning how important getting linked there is. I'm not saying there's no bubble, and I personally anticipate a lot of turmoil in the next year, but monetisation of that would be the most primitive way of earning a lot of money. If anyone is dead man walking it's Google. For better or worse, Chatgpt has become to AI what Google was to search, even though I think Gemini is also good or even better. I also have my own doubts about the value of LLMs because I've already experienced a lot of caveats with the stuff it gives you. But at the same time, as long as you don't believe it blindly, getting started with something new has never been easier. If you don't see value in that, I don't know what to tell you.

thewebguyd 1y ago
> For better or worse, Chatgpt has become to AI what Google was to search, even though I think Gemini is also good or even better. Google definitely has the better model right now, but I think ChatGPT is already well on its way to becoming to AI what Google was to search. ChatGPT is a household name at this point. Any non tech person I ask or talk about AI with it's default to be assumed it's ChatGPT. "ChatGPT" has become synonymous with "AI" for the average population, much in the same way "Google it" meant to perform an internet search. So ChatGPT already has the popular brand. I think people are sleeping on Google though. They have a hardware advantage and aren't reliant on Nvidia, and have way more experience than OpenAI in building out compute and with ML, Google has been an "AI Company" since forever. Google's problem if they lose won't be because of tech or an inferior model, it will be because they absolutely suck at making products. What Google puts out always feels like a research project made public because someone inside thought it was cool enough to share. There's not a whole lot of product strategy or cohesion across the Google ecosystem.

thewebguyd 1y ago

> For better or worse, Chatgpt has become to AI what Google was to search, even though I think Gemini is also good or even better. Google definitely has the better model right now, but I think ChatGPT is already well on its way to becoming to AI what Google was to search. ChatGPT is a household name at this point. Any non tech person I ask or talk about AI with it's default to be assumed it's ChatGPT. "ChatGPT" has become synonymous with "AI" for the average population, much in the same way "Google it" meant to perform an internet search. So ChatGPT already has the popular brand. I think people are sleeping on Google though. They have a hardware advantage and aren't reliant on Nvidia, and have way more experience than OpenAI in building out compute and with ML, Google has been an "AI Company" since forever. Google's problem if they lose won't be because of tech or an inferior model, it will be because they absolutely suck at making products. What Google puts out always feels like a research project made public because someone inside thought it was cool enough to share. There's not a whole lot of product strategy or cohesion across the Google ecosystem.