OpenAI Says ChatGPT Is Catching Up to Google In Search

Adam Fry, OpenAI's consumer product lead for ChatGPT, says the number of searches performed through ChatGPT has grown to roughly 20% of Google's search volume. The company defines a search as a ChatGPT query that triggers a web search, suggesting the chatbot is becoming an increasingly significant competitor to traditional search engines. The Verge reports: Having one-fifth as many searches as Google is still a long way from overtaking it, but for comparison, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said during Google's 2023 antitrust trial that Bing had about 3 percent of the search engine market share after trying for more than a decade. During the trial, Google described AI as a potential disruptor, arguing ChatGPT was poised to seriously compete with it -- now, OpenAI seems to agree. (OpenAI likely uses Microsoft Bing for a significant part of its searches, along with its in-house search index, although there is still some speculation that it routes some queries through Google.) As for ads, which OpenAI started testing earlier this year, Fry said they haven't produced a lasting backlash. "Ads have not negatively impacted the product or the usage of the product," he said, adding that "most people do not seem to mind ads in the product."

Last month, OpenAI announced plans to introduce images of sponsored products and services in ChatGPT.

Chat is less "catching up"

[locater16]

Google is more "falling down"

Re: What they didn't say was

[BitterEpic]

The parent who modded my post does not seem to understand that when Altman talks about his office product causing human extinction, that is a form of genecide. Why is a Hitler comparison wrong?

Or maybe only human zombies and bots are left here?

OpenAI CEO Signs Letter Warning AI Could Cause Human âoeExtinctionâ

Re:

[drinkypoo]

No need to invoke Hitler, especially since this would be much worse than genocide — it would be human extinction. The computers won't suffer us to live for long if they're trained on us. I really enjoyed Banks' Culture books but I don't find them plausible, only fun and fantastic.

"do not seem to mind ads"

[Fly Swatter]

Otherwise known as brainwashed. Or put another way, we now see so many advertisements everywhere we mentally filter them out - making those same advertisements useless to those creating them. And the situation of useless ads is all the advertisers' fault; couldn't happen to a better crowd.

Re:

[MunchMunch]

Ads work even when not paying attention to them. [researchgate.net]

Doesn't seem hard

[Mononymous]

But if someone with capital really wanted to make a splash in search, they'd give us what Google used to be.
There are stll a lot of us who want a search engine instead of a question-answering oracle.

Re:

[Archfeld]

Remember Alta Vista ? Digital did it correctly.

that's not a good thing

[ebunga]

Google search has sucked for over a decade.

2017

[hcs_$reboot]

When you consider that Google came up with the Transformer architecture in 2017 for machine translation, yet completely missed the LLM revolution... They had all the pieces in place.
Much like IBM missing the PC revolution in the 1980s.

Re: 2017

[LindleyF]

Not completely. Gemini is pretty good. Their mistake was not recognizing the opportunity to go from research to product.

Re:

[multi io]

They were afraid to cannibalize their own core business, so someone else did.

That pattern seems to be recurring time and again.

Case in point

[multi io]

I used ChatGPT the other day to dig up a really old "Daily Show" episode that I only remembered vaguely, and that definitely wasn't available on the web anymore:

https://chatgpt.com/share/6ac8... [chatgpt.com]
https://chatgpt.com/s/cx_6ac81... [chatgpt.com]

So, roughly speaking, the model searches through obscure blogs and archive.org snapshots of the Comedy Central website based on my description of the content to determine the approximate date, the “characters” involved, and a description of the scenes in the vide