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The best case I can see is they integrate shopping and steal the best high-intent cash cow commercial queries from G. It's not really about AI, it's about who g
by siliconc0w 10mo ago
The best case I can see is they integrate shopping and steal the best high-intent cash cow commercial queries from G. It's not really about AI, it's about who gets to be the next toll road.
- therobots927 10mo agoGoogle already puts AI summaries at the top of search. It would be trivial for them to incorporate shopping. And they have infinitely more traffic than OpenAI does. I just don’t see how OpenAI could possibly compete with that. What are you seeing that I’m not?
- sothatsit 10mo agoChatGPT has already won a lot of people away from Google like my mum, who now defaults to ChatGPT when she has a question. I was just talking to one of their friends last night who is in his 90s and he loves using Perplexity to learn about cooking and gardening. A lot of people now reach for ChatGPT by default instead of Google, even with the AI summaries. I wonder whether they just prefer the interface of the chat apps to Google that can be a bit cluttered in comparison.
- thimabi 10mo ago> A lot of people now reach for ChatGPT by default instead of Google, even with the AI summaries. I’m one of those people, and the reason for that is that Google’s AI summaries are awful more times than not. With ChatGPT I can (kind of) set how much “thinking” to do for each query and guide the model into producing better results via prompting.
- siliconc0w 10mo agoI can see users preferring GPT for big ticket items like cars, travel or service companies where you don't have a rec and want something a bet better curated than sponsored results. Especially if they improve the integration so you can book your entire iterary through the chat interface.