Google Disputes Apple VP's Claim of Safari Search Traffic Decline

[MacBH928]

People who say Ai is replacing google search do not know that AI is using Google search in the background hence why Google is saying search is increasing not decreasing.

Precisely why I don't own Google stocks. I've been doing more and more queries on ChatGPT (I pay $20/month) and less and less on Google.

That said, I will be watching Google stocks closely. If it drops to something like 10 P/E, I'm buying.

Google does not only have google search: Android, Google Play store, Google TV, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Maps, GMAIL, Chrome, AI, Cloud services, Youtube, ChromeOS and then more. Google Search is partial of their offering like Apple Watch for Apple.

Cue is right. For knowledge searches AI is far better. However, I wonder how often is LLM updated on the latest news? Copilot reply to "What happens in the Vatican today?" > "Sorry I do not have real time information". Google could accurately tell me.

You have to enable web search to get latest information. AI uses web search (google) in the background.

I need more context here.. Could it be that Apple see's a decline in Google searches through their applications (Safari, Siri, Spotlight, etc…) while Google states that there's no decline from Apple's devices. Both could very well be true.

Probably Google Search on Apple Safari declining as there are replacement and people are getting more privacy conscious but google search might be on the rise because AI use it in the background to get up to date information. People who use Ai just do not realise that.

 

[Seoras]

Just reading the comments makes me think that there's a large group of google/search users who haven't really gotten into using AI (LLMs) properly yet.

I still use Google search but no where near as much as I did before I started using ChatGPT (I have a paid subscription).
Even looking things up on Wikipedia I find myself just asking GPT for a quick summary.
If I can't find something on Wikipedia, as happened this week, I'll ask GPT as it has been trained on almost the entire contents of the internet which includes private websites, forums etc.

I'm trying to think of what I do use Google for now? Shopping sometimes, yes.
Even that is an area that OpenAI are moving into.
Now that you can give GPT internet access to search (it probably uses google) it is covering what's left for me of Google use cases.

So yeah, I believe Eddie Cue, and I think Google sounds a lot like Intel did back when Apple switched to their own silicon.

 

[Makanmata]

This is whistling past the graveyard. I've stopped using Google for search in favor of AI - after around 3 decades of using it exclusively - and I doubt I'm remotely the only one. I bet a year from now Google searches will be down by half. It's simply obsolete.

 

[senttoschool]

Google does not only have google search: Android, Google Play store, Google TV, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Maps, GMAIL, Chrome, AI, Cloud services, Youtube, ChromeOS and then more. Google Search is partial of their offering like Apple Watch for Apple.

None of those matter if Google Search is rendered irrelevant. It's Google's cash cow. Most of its profit.

People who say Ai is replacing google search do not know that AI is using Google search in the background hence why Google is saying search is increasing not decreasing.

Yes, AI also searches the web. But increasingly, AI bots are not using Google search for the web. For example, OpenAI's AI searches the web without Google.

Regardless, AI search is different than Google Search which shows ads at the very top. It's been a lucrative business that is threatened by a different format.

 

[MacBH928]

This is whistling past the graveyard. I've stopped using Google for search in favor of AI - after around 3 decades of using it exclusively - and I doubt I'm remotely the only one. I bet a year from now Google searches will be down by half. It's simply obsolete.

they have their own ai called gemini

 

[Makanmata]

they have their own ai called gemini

. . . which almost nobody uses and has a very small market share in the AI space as compared to Google in the search space. Google, meet Kodak.