Will Google’s ChatGPT search engine survive?

OpenAI is officially throwing its hat into the search engine ring, potentially threatening Google’s status as the one-stop source for Internet queries. With the organization’s ChatGPT chatbot now integrating a search engine feature dubbed SearchGPT, some experts are wondering if this means the end of Google.

Generative artificial intelligence has already caused changes in search engine ecosystem. Google is slowly reinventing itself to keep up with the technological shift by integrating AI-generated responses There’s a new feature at the top of search results called AI Reviews. It also faced some competition with the introduction AI confusionAI-enhanced search engine that has received “more than $400 million in funding” says Washington Post.

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ChatGPT search is “everything Google was in the early days before it started monetizing our eyes,” Lance Ulanoff said on Technical radar. The clean, ad-free interface is reminiscent of the early days of the old engine. Modern Google The search engine “carries so much water” for all its other products and services, as well as its “insatiable need for revenue,” making it “indistinguishable from the search engine I loved in 2003,” Ulanoff added. Admittedly, it’s “too early” to definitively call SearchGPT the best search engine, and it’s doubtful that “OpenAI’s knowledge graph is anywhere near as rich as Google’s,” Ulanoff said. “However, ChatGPT search seems better right now.”

Both search engines succeed in different ways, but “serve slightly different needs,” Amanda Caswell said on Tom’s Guide. If you want comprehensive search results with multiple sources and visuals, “Google is still the powerhouse.” However, if you prefer “clear conversational responses without ads,” ChatGPT offers a “simplified and user-friendly interface” that “could easily become a staple for everyday queries.” ChatGPT search’s “clutter-free answers” are “thorough and reliable” and the results “feel like they’re meant just for me,” Caswell said. In a “cluttered network,” ChatGPT “feels like a helpful friend.”

After temporarily switching to ChatGPT search as the default search engine for about a day, “I quickly switched back to Google,” Maxwell Zeff said on Tech crisis. OpenAI’s search feature was “kind of impressive” and provided “a glimpse of what an AI-powered search interface might one day look like.” But for now, “it’s still too impractical to use as a daily driver,” Zeff added. In its current form, ChatGPT search is not yet robust enough for what “people use Google most often: short navigation queries.” Google’s mastery of short-tail keywords made the original search engine “irreplaceable,” and until OpenAI can get a handle on it, “Google will still be a mainstay for a lot of people.”

Making ChatGPT your primary search engine “doesn’t make sense yet,” Calvin Wankhede said on Android authority. The overall experience with the new engine “is still quite poor” and “the chatbot has limited capabilities for obtaining real-time information.” Finding more information can “also be quite tedious” since ChatGPT “doesn’t offer similar search suggestions like Google.” Overall, OpenAI’s search engine is a “good starting point” and “an excellent secondary source of information,” Wankhede said. However, despite what OpenAI says, it is “not a search engine replacement, and I would caution against using it for any mission-critical tasks.”

ChatGPT won’t be able to dethrone Google search on its own, said Conor Grennan, chief artificial intelligence architect at New York University’s Stern School of Business and founder of the AI consultancy Mindset. Forbes. ChatGPT search “won’t be a Google search killer, but not because of its quality,” Grennan said. The nascent product “simply can’t compete with Google’s reach” or “the comfort people get from using Google.”