Google's secret sauce is not its product but how it is able to monetize its userbase. OpenAI isn't going to become Google by launching a better language model and hoping that enough people pay $20/mo for it. It has never really been about search at all. The various forms of user tracking, AdWords, AdSense are all alive and well, and are very far from OpenAI's expertise.

Let's at least wait for the $10B spending cash from Microsoft to run out and the company to become profitable before we crown them Google killers.

Since ChatGPT became publicly accessible, I can tell that my use of google has gone down

1. I had an interview for a CIO position - I fed the job description, ask ChatGPT to generate top 10 questions to be asked based on it , I was asked 90% similar or the same questions. Heck I even asked to provide best answers and they were great. It even generated a question on personalization and a/b testing which I thought would be highly unlikely to be asked, but was indeed asked. It was as if the interviewer also generated the same question.

2. For my current company, I am in charge of building a brand new engineering team, for which I wanted to write vision, mission and strategy statements. Previously I would have googled stuff, this time I asked ChatGPT to improve it based on my rough draft. And boy they are great.

I can go on.

My point is that not everyone needs to ask ChatGPT to generate ray tracing code using three.js or whatever. Most of us are just regular folk need regular help and ChatGPT is a game changer for it. Heck it even helped me with some excel macro I needed to write to do some data manipulation.

I pirate and the private usenet website I use has this funky search rules for "sphinx" they call it. Never seen it before.

I copied and pasted the search engine query term rules they have on the page, then said I want to find all American Dad episodes for season 18 with x265 codec. And it gave me the query to use.

This thing saves a bunch of time all over the place. This is truly the bicycle for the mind.

Sphinx is open source search engine. Sphinx allows full-text searches over large data sources.