3 comments

  • jasonthorsness 7 hours ago
    ChatGPT is consistently fast now and gives me much better results than Google. IMO Google has damaged their brand with their "AI Overview" which apparently is a meme/laughingstock amongst the middle school crowd at least at my kids' school.

    It's weird because I love the Gemini models; they are very good; Google is fumbling this.

    • joegibbs 7 hours ago
      It’s really terrible, not only does it get a ton of things obviously wrong but it also gets contradicted by the first search result, and it smugly tells you you’re wrong in an authoritative tone as if you’re some kind of idiot for even asking it.
  • amusely 8 hours ago
    When the start of the search is organically moving to chatGPT & other gen AI services - how would users even go from here to Google ?
    • Bluestein 8 hours ago
      Google is effectively dead.-
      • Fade_Dance 8 hours ago
        Google is at 16 billion searches a day currently. It is not "effectively dead."
        • throwaway915 7 hours ago
          Google is on almost every mobile device that's not Apple.

          This antitrust is the thing keeping Google going.

        • amusely 8 hours ago
          statistically based on engagement - chatgpt is 14 requests/user/day vs google which is at 7requests/user/day

          Google has significantly higher user count overall but the usage trend is not in Google's favor.

          • marginalia_nu 5 hours ago
            I don't know if that is necessarily a point in favor of chatgpt.

            The better a search engine (or AI chatbot) works, the fewer queries you need to make to find what you are looking for, so the numbers could also be interpreted as Google still being the more accurate tool for queries.

          • Bluestein 7 hours ago
            Fair enough ...

            ... Was, Indeed, extrapolating. And doing so, considering that their "AI-oriented" efforts (to play catch up - with the "AI Summaries" and such) are being met with due revulsion.-

  • amusely 7 hours ago
    Probably also the reason why GEO is becoming as important as SEO these days.