Plenty of cases where you just want to type something in a search box and see a bunch of different options - like shopping. Let’s say you’re in the market for a keyboard. Would you ask ChatGPT what’s the best keyboard on the market right now, and just buy that? I wouldn’t. I want to see a few different options and I‘m not even someone who enjoys shopping. Where there’s a list of options to display, google will have plenty of room to throw their ads in. If anything Amazon is more of a threat to google, if all online shopping ends up there.
I can search for, find, and order virtually anything I want in less than a minute. Unless an AI is going to anticipate exactly what I need, order it for me, and have it delivered before I even think about it, I don’t see these two things competing much.
I would definitely ask ChatGPT what the best keyboards are, summarizing their strengths/weaknesses, and then use that as the starting point of my search.
Comparison shopping is a major PITA with current sites, clicking back-and-forth between various product pages and review sites, and trying to distill it down to a few relevant choices -- things that ChatGPT's excellent abilities at summarization could really help with.
I don’t consider it a major PITS, especially compared to physically driving to a store and buying it that way. It’s fun for a lot of people too. If a chat bot is going to recommend a few things, there’s opportunity for google to throw their ads in there. Or maybe they’ll just tax everyone and make advertisers pay a fee to be considered in the training set, then you don’t even know what’s an ad and what’s not.
I can search for, find, and order virtually anything I want in less than a minute. Unless an AI is going to anticipate exactly what I need, order it for me, and have it delivered before I even think about it, I don’t see these two things competing much.