Google is dying. Google is unstoppable. Somehow, both of those things feel true now. For the first time in more than a decade, a product has emerged that could truly threaten Google search, the core of the web, including OpenAI’s new SearchGPT. Yet Google search continues to dominate the market and earn truly immeasurable amounts of money.
As far as this episode is concerned edge broadcast, we discuss the launch of SearchGPT, Google’s latest earnings report, and the increasingly blatant ways in which artificial intelligence companies are crawling the web for their own purposes. Who will win the future of search is anyone’s guess, but one thing is certain: The way the web used to work no longer works. We need new rules, new norms, and new ideas about how the web should evolve.
If you’d like to learn more about everything we discuss in this episode, here’s a link to get started with the future of search:
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