The predominance that Google knew how to build over the last decades as far as its search engine is under threat. The world reference in terms of generative artificial intelligence, OpenAI would plan to launch its own service with the attraction of having the answers of ChatGPT.
Once again, leaks of an announcement emerge from the social network “X” before its own developers do so. Tibor Blaho Prompt Engineering of the firm AIPRM Corp, published a video of the possible user experience of the OpenAI search engine that looks very similar to what Google currently offers.
Apart from this statement, the artificial intelligence specialist also published a thread on the Reddit platform that confirms domain purchase search.chatgpt.com which reaffirms the imminent arrival of Sam Altman’s firm in this segment.
And as if the suspicions were few, the technology company began to give subtle hints of this imminent announcement in the last few hours. In principle, they changed the design of their website, now similar to the popular Google search engine than the traditional ChatGPT one.
What the ChatGPT search engine will be like
Without official confirmation so far, the OpenAI search engine with generative artificial intelligence should rely on BING technology, search engine of the Edge browser, after its strategic partner Microsoft uses its own ChatGPT to power its Copilot chatbot.
The launch of a search system in ChatGPT would be nothing more than a natural evolution towards what can already be done with a GPT-4 Plus account, through some GPTs with these functionalities.
On the other hand, search is an option, which Copilot already provides in BING, or rivals such as the chatbots Perplexity or You, where, to the conversational responses to their chats, add links to external query sources.
Apparently, the announcement of this new search engine would be the May 9a few days before Google holds its traditional Google I/O developer conference, in which more advances are expected around Gemini artificial intelligence and a new way of displaying information within the traditional search engine called Google SGE.
How Google’s Rivals Fared Throughout History
The apparent arrival of the OpenAI search engine will put it in the ring against a company that knew how to make its name synonymous with the internet. The emergence of Google as the main search engine worldwide constitutes a fundamental part of the history of the web.
Over the last decades, the technology created by Larry Page y Sergey Brin consolidated its dominant position, both within web browsers with Chrome, and in the search engine market with a 81.95% adoption Worldwide.
However, while Open AI intends to threaten its reign, the most popular search engine on the internet knew how to confront other “giants” in the segment:
In the early days of the network, High view It was one of the most popular search engines. They launched it in 1995 and gained popularity due to its ability to index a large number of web pages. However, its interface and search algorithms were surpassed by Google in terms of relevance and accuracy.
Yahoo! was one of the main engines in the 1990s and early 2000s. It acquired its own only in 2002, but eventually lost ground to Google due to the latter’s superiority in the quality of search results and technological innovation.
Bing is Microsoft’s search engine, launched in 2009. Although it has tried to compete with Google by offering unique features and an attractive interface, it has failed to significantly surpass Google’s market share.
Formerly known as Ask Jeeves, Ask.com was popular in the 2000s due to its feature of allowing users to ask questions in natural language. However, lost relevance as Google established itself as the market leader.
A search engine that stood out for its focus on user privacy and non-personalization of search results is DuckDuckGo. Although it did not reach the mass popularity of Google, it managed to gain followers among those concerned about online privacy.