How much does it cost to run a GenAI query? There's lots of investment money flowing into this right now, and companies seem to be using the classic "lose money until you gain market dominance" approach, but I wonder whether it's really sustainable in the long-term.
> is slowly being replaced with GenAI
How so exactly?
People are getting synthesized answers from LLMs that replace googling, filtering, and skimming for the info you need. Unless I misunderstand your question.
If you are okay with made-up answers, then you don't even need to use Google to begin with.
Made-up answers are also a lot of the google search results.
Google doesn't provide explicit search numbers for a user but I estimate with ChatGPT my own use of Google has probably gone down by 5%
Not huge, but not nothing
They haven’t figured out how to monetize bard yet without pommeling their original search, so they are in a tight bind