OpenAI is developing a search app that will directly compete with Google search. The AI search engine could be a new feature for ChatGPT or a separate app altogether.
Microsoft Bing could potentially become the most serious threat Google has ever faced with its global search monopoly (it’s still good that we have our own, albeit imperfect, search engine).
Modern AI-powered search engines from Google and Perplexity answer your questions with a clear, AI-generated answer, usually in one or two sentences. The engine then provides links to its sources. This creates a kind of hybrid chatbot, AI, and search engine. The new search product is expected to be faster than ChatGPT without sacrificing its powerful generalization capabilities.
Industry experts believe that OpenAI is Google’s nightmare from which it can’t wake up. More than 100 million people use ChatGPT every week, and the trend appears to be reducing the number of people who rely on Google Search as their primary search engine. Now, OpenAI is taking a direct shot at Google’s crown jewel, attempting to dethrone the dominant internet service.
Google Search has been the primary way to find information on the internet for the past two decades, but that’s changing. Google Search revenues were lower than Wall Street had expected in its latest forecasts, and CEO Sundar Pichai was coy about whether that’s because fewer people are using Google Search.