OpenAI reportedly has Google in its sights with a new online search product
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OpenAI is developing a web search product, The Information reported, which may be partly powered by Microsoft's Bing search engine.

This is the first thing I actually believe has a chance to hurt Google. Chat Gpt really succeeded, and it’s Microsofts billions behind it. All at the same time as Google has lost its culture of innovation and has become a creepy sleezy company.

  • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.netEnglish
    262·
    5 months ago

    I would welcome a better search engine, all the SEO stuff destroyed Googles index of the web so it’s difficult to find real things outside of reddit. Or perhaps nobody posts on the open web anymore?

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      232·
      5 months ago

      I, too, would welcome something better, but ChatGPT ain’t it. I don’t need bizarrely wrong answers to my searches.

      • sunbeam60@lemmy.oneEnglish
        53·
        5 months ago

        I’ve found OpenAI’s result-quality significantly better than anything I find on page 1 of search results, whether Google or DuckDuckGo.

        For anything other than a very specific, singular term, I use ChatGPT almost exclusively.

    • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
      51·
      5 months ago

      Or perhaps nobody posts on the open web anymore?

      I think this is the bigger factor. Most people are now talking on closed unindexed FB/Insta, closed Discord groups, closed groupchats… All unfindable and unsearchable.

      And no way a competitor will open themselves to get scraped by Google in 2024, such is capitalism.