The New Google?
Since ChatGPT was released, there’s been a lot of talk about what kind of effect this could have on search engines. I hear that Microsoft might implement this technology in their Bing search engine and that Google is a little worried about how it will affect their industry.
People who think that it might be able to replace Google, though, are forgetting something very important: ChatGPT may be trained on a vast collection of information, but it’s not actually searching the Internet. It can’t tell you what time the local library closes or who won yesterday’s Miss Universe pageant; in fact, if you ask it search-engine-type questions, it tells you that its knowledge cutoff was in 2021. Unless things change drastically, I think Google is going to be fine.