I still use Google, but sometimes I use ChatGPT where I may have used Google.
But having said that we are still early. If ChatGPT gets access to current information and can quote sources, pull out pertinent parts of web pages,
etc then I might stop using Google.
That would be like a restaurant that lets you eat then leave with your weekly
shop but at costco prices.
I feel like my Google searches are too short and precise in general; if I were to try getting the same information from an informal AI chat, it's a huge loss of productivity and efficiency I'd imagine.
Google: "<local restuarant>" = Full page of information including reviews, links to order delivery, directions, etc. All in a standard UI that doesn't change from restaurant to restaurant. Muscle memory takes over.
ChatGPT: "Tell me about <local restaurant>" = Blurb of text that may or may not be useful.
People, including myself, have asked Google a lot of straight-up questions over the years, and those use cases match well with generative AI. But the overall point of a search engine is to find something on the internet, and I don't think that's going to go away.
I still use Google, but sometimes I use ChatGPT where I may have used Google.
But having said that we are still early. If ChatGPT gets access to current information and can quote sources, pull out pertinent parts of web pages, etc then I might stop using Google.
That would be like a restaurant that lets you eat then leave with your weekly shop but at costco prices.