Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as Google sees a decline

Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by yongjik on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:54PM (#35295318)

I still find it hard to believe. I've been at Google until 2015, which was a long time ago, but at that time the separation between Search and Ads was considered near sacred. Ads representatives couldn't even ask "Hey, my customer asked why their site is below this other irrelevant site for this query, this seems like a bug in search ranking..."

Pretty much everybody understood that we will lose in the long term, if we let ad revenue even be a consideration in search ranking. (...which makes today's bad search experiences even more puzzling.)

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by aix1 on Saturday March 25, 2023 @02:04AM (#35299939)

I'm in neither Search nor Ads, but have been at Google long enough to have seen the massive change in internal culture between 2015 and the present day. I don't want to speculate on any specifics, but it's pretty clear to me that we shouldn't be applying 2015-era logic or perceptions to today's Google and expecting them to hold.

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by xyzzyz on Monday March 27, 2023 @01:59PM (#35330000)

I joined in 2014 and left in 2019, and it was much different company by the end. My wife still works there, and she tells me it is different still from since when I left.

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