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Google doesn’t care if you’re going elsewhere to ask deep questions about Rust or whatever. They care way more that people go to them to look for the best bread mixer, or find a good restaurant, or a local massage therapist. In that regard I think Amazon is still a much bigger threat to them.

GPT is very useful as a knowledge tool, but I don’t see people going there to make purchasing decisions. It replaces stackoverflow and quora, not Google. For shopping, I need to see the top X raw results, with reviews, so I can come to my own conclusion. Many people even find shopping fun (I don’t) and wouldn’t want to replace the experience with a chatbot even if it were somehow objectively better.

>>jliptz+(OP)
Fair enough. My questions are more likely to be about Fast.ai, but I get your point.

Did you see the recent article about a restaurant changing its name to "Thai Food near me"?

>>jliptz+(OP)
Yea. No.

People stopping to use google for the small stuff will be the beginning of the end of google being the mental default for searches.

>>konsch+X2
There is a wide variety of services available to people for specific use cases. When stack overflow came along, I used that for programming questions instead of google. But I still use google for most other searches.

I go to Amazon if I want to find a book or a specific product.

For the latest news, I come here, or Reddit, or sometimes twitter.

If I want to look up information about a famous person or topic, I go to Wikipedia (usually via google search). I know I can ask ChatGPT, but Wikipedia is generally more up to date, well-written and highly scrutinized by humans.

The jury’s still out on exactly what role ChatGPT will serve in the long term, but we’ve seen this kind of unbundling many times before and Google is still just as popular and useful as ever.

It seems like GPT’s killer app is helping guide your learning of a new topic, like having a personal tutor. I don’t see that replacing all aspects of a general purpose search engine though.

>>jliptz+26
Your last paragraph - yes! Many people haven't realized this yet.

She/he/it/them is an amazing programming tutor.