SearchGPT

Google is in the middle of its own Innovator’s Dilemma: disrupting its $260 billion-a-year search business before someone else does. The question isn’t who will build the AI version of Google Search – the answer is obvious: Google – so our friends in Mountain View have a couple of things they're testing. Continue Reading →

As part of its 12 days of "shipmas," OpenAI has announced that its AI-powered search engine, SearchGPT, is now available to all users, both free and paid, starting today. This expansion follows the initial release in October, which was limited to paid subscribers. The search function is well-integrated into ChatGPT, and it's pretty useful. Continue Reading →

It started in 2022 with perplexity.ai, which (when it was working great) allowed you to do 10 minutes of Google searches in about 10 seconds. Google's answer? AI Overviews, which got everyone's knickers in a knot because there were no links, which meant no revenue for content creators or publishers. Now, there's OpenAI's newly announced SearchGPT, which will not only presents links, but also organizes and contextualizes information with summaries, insights, and detailed answers. To quote Yoda: "Begun, the search wars have." Continue Reading →