Gmail creator predicts ChatGPT may challenge Google's search engine monopoly - Daily Mail

Paul Buchheit, 45, a developer who was behind Gmail, believes Google's search engine dominance could soon be disrupted by ChatGPT.

AI will eliminate the search engine result page, which is where they make most of their money,' he tweeted.  'Even if they catch up on AI, they can't fully deploy it without destroying the most valuable part of their business!' he continued.    .

'One thing that few people remember is the pre-internet business that Google killed: the Yellow Pages.

The Yellow Pages used to be a great business, but then Google got so good that everyone stopped using the Yellow Pages.

A core way that Google makes money is from advertisers paying to have their links displayed alongside the results of a search query result in the hope that a user clicks on them. .

'The old search engine backend will be used by the AI to gather relevant information and links, which will then be summarized for the user.

'One thing that few people remember is the pre-internet business that Google killed: the Yellow Pages.

The Yellow Pages used to be a great business, but then Google got so good that everyone stopped using the Yellow Pages.

Yes, that risks Google's core search business,' said David Friedberg, a former Google executive and entrepreneur, to the All-In podcast.

DailyMail.com asked ChatGPT: 'Will sophisticated AI chatbots end Google's search engine dominance?' .

'AI chatbots are designed for specific tasks, while search engines like Google are designed to search vast amounts of information

A tool like ChatGPT could be used in real-world applications such as digital marketing, online content creation, answering customer service queries or as some users have found, even to help debug code