Re:A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business
by sfmike on Friday December 23, 2022 @06:14PM
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you could argue the counter point to google. in the event a search engine became 10+ billion dollar business X company(Microsoft IBM whoever) could launch a similar algorithmic search engine. First to market and brand is very strong regardless of the technology. If everyone starts using a chat gpt like thing for all of their life that can become worth billions and seriously hamper search volume universally.
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Re:A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business
by geoduck14 on Friday December 23, 2022 @06:29PM
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"First to market"
You should know that ChatGPT isn't the "first". It is from OpenAI, who have multiple LLMs. And there are multiple competitors including Google and Facebook.
It is a very expensive market to compete in
Also, Google has already been using their LLM in their search, "in the market"
Re:A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business
by alimov on Friday December 23, 2022 @06:58PM
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> Also, Google has already been using their LLM in their search, "in the market"
And yet I still have to filter through a bunch of results to find something actually useful, vs simply asking chatGPT and getting relevant information immediately (with obv limitations of chatgpt). Why does it feel like Google search has gotten progressively worse every year?
Re:A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business
by endisneigh on Friday December 23, 2022 @06:16PM
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Perhaps. But Google putting a huge banner on Google.com saying, "Hey, use GoogleGPT!" would result in a high percentage of the billion+ Google searchers using it. It's not really the same scenario. For what it's worth, I do think Microsoft or Yahoo could have properly countered Google if they executed more effectively sooner.