The Google era is officially over | The Vergecast

SearchGPT

When it comes to learning and research for topics — sure, but even then, not all the time.

Dethroning Google takes a lot more effort on user experience and speed and practicality.

Most people use Google for a lot of other things. Things that AI is actually totally unnecessary.

Most of my use on Google is around:

• getting to a site or a subtopic of a site, and actually using the site. Like looking for flights, or a specific section of a wiki. Or a product page's tech specs, etc.
• lazy bookmarking — I know the site, but I don't bookmark it, and sometimes, it's easier to just Google
• the minor things that Google had implemented over time, like currency conversion, weather, etc
• quick skimming of info just by looking at the top results

I'd only believe SearchGPT or whatever beating Google once it's actually blazing fast. Even with the speed improvements out there, it's still slow in comparison. Slow as in "I've already read and learned the top results before GPT-4o could even print the first sentence" slow.

Of course, this changes entirely if Google uses their AI stuff fulltime because it'll kill the good things in Google Search instead