ChatGPT could certainly take Google down a stack of pegs. Google is
enormous, so I doubt it's all that easily *destroyed*, but... "search"
isn't going to be what it used to be.
Google is was all about finding pages and sites. ChatGPT is about finding
information. They used to be mostly the same thing, but they aren't any
longer. Google will need to adapt to that, but, as so many large companies
have found in the past, trying to pivot away from a core business is harder
than it seems.
Google indexes the world. ChatGPT synthesizes it. The generative text
model appears to be the more compelling model for a whole variety of things
that indexing just isn't sufficient for, because the new model can create
things that aren't there to be indexed. Google is reliant on what already
exists out there (which is increasingly being siloed inside systems like
Facebook, reddit, instagram, and so on. ChatGPT is not reliant on any of
that, and can create new material on its own, which is certainly not
something we generally expect from search engines.
Scott
On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 2:34 AM Steve Crane <steve.crane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://bgr.com/tech/gmail-creator-says-chatgpt-might-destroy-google-within-2-years/
Maybe time to start moving our mail lives to ProtonMail or some other
paid service. If Google dies they won't be giving us free email any
longer. 🤔
Steve Crane
about.me/stevecrane
