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I don’t think Google is a good competitor to OpenAI as a quality AI product is harmful to their search/ad business.

OpenAI is perfectly happy killing the search/ad business because they aren’t in that market. They are happy to replace a $75B search market with a $20B AI chat market. Google not so much.

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My Google results already have an AI response integrated, similar to the knowledge graph answers. So seemingly they are head on competing; no reason they can't still display ads next to that.

Would you still use it though if there's a better AI answer from someone else and there's isn't a confusingly placed ad next to it?

Why do you think it is "harmful to their search/ad business"?

I see as enhancement. It will not be long before Word and Google Docs is using AI to help people write copy, correct, and translate documents. Those are just the ones I can think of and I'm not that smart. Do you really think either Google or M$ will allow a 3rd party to control something that is integrated into their products? Only companies that are out of business do things like that.

Because there are less opportunities to show ads with a chatbot, especially if its voice based. From a user perspective it’s an enhancement. From a revenue perspective, it’s harmful

Except chatgpt isn't really a google replacement. Not only is the information routinely outdated, people are starting to finally realize just how often it's either blatantly or subtly wrong.

Google is much better positioned to have AI enhanced search.

What makes them much better than MS, with Bing, especially when a small company like perplexity.ai is providing something that's years ahead of Google?

SEO is slowly killing its search business and general AI is probably the only meaningful long-term solution to that threat. Compared to that, cannibalization inside Google is a more manageable problem.

Lol if they're doing 1 billion next year I bet the market is at least as big as search

Bing injects ads into their responses ?

My google search results now have a section on the top that an LLM generates along with the rest of the results. I don’t think they have to be separate.

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