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Friday, April 19, 2024

A World Without Google Search - CNET

Last updated Sunday, February 19, 2023 09:05 ET , Source: NewsService

The latest in generative AI is changing how we use the web. Are we ready for a world of chatbot search engines?

It has come to my attention that, within a few short years, we might find ourselves living on a planet devoid of Google Search.

That might seem dramatic. After all, Google Search is probably the horse you rode in on; your first step on a microsecond-long journey across the internet that brought you to this article. Maybe you were searching for "ChatGPT" or "OpenAI" or maybe you were trying to break Google by typing "Google" into Google. (It just gives you a lot of Google, don't bother.) Maybe your smartphone served you this article because you've been reading a lot about AI at CNET lately.

Whatever the case, you're here now, and more often than not that's thanks to Google Search.

For more than two decades, Google's empty search bar has rolled out the welcome mat to what we used to call the World Wide Web. Challengers have appeared over its 20-year dominance but not one has come close to dethroning the search king. Claims of its coming death have been made routinely and earnestly, but most contenders haven't even made it into the castle.

But from the moment OpenAI's ChatGPT began algorithmically generating waves in November, something shifted. ChatGPT is a generative AI that can write human-sounding answers in response to basically any question you ask of it. Its proficiency has wowed anyone who has asked it to write code, essay answers, poetry or prose. It's so...



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