NEWSFLASH: New research shows AI is disrupting the search landscape
Gartner, a technological research and consulting firm, predicts that traffic from traditional search engines will drop 25% by 2026. The reason? People will turn to Generative AI and ChatBots (like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude) rather than traditional search engines.
AI innovation is disrupting the search landscape:
– Case in point: “Can This A.I.-Powered Search Engine Replace Google? It Has for Me,” writes New York Times reporter Kevin Roose in an installment of The Shift. “Hundreds of searches later, I can report that even though Perplexity isn’t perfect, it’s very good. And while I’m not ready to break up with Google entirely, I’m now more convinced that A.I.-powered search engines like Perplexity could loosen Google’s grip on the search market, or at least force it to play catch-up.”
– “Arc Search combines browser, search engine, and AI into something new and different,” reports The Verge’s David Pierce, underscoring the shifts innovative AI is bringing to traditional search. “A few minutes ago, I opened the new Arc Search app and typed, ‘What happened in the Chiefs game?’ That game, the AFC Championship, had just wrapped up. Normally, I’d Google it, click on a few links, and read about the game that way. But in Arc Search, I typed the query and tapped the ‘Browse for me’ button instead.”
– “Another search breakthrough? You.com debuts AI that can answer multi-step questions,” writes VentureBeat reporters. “If past breakthroughs like multimodal search are any indication, then Richard Socher and You.com seem poised to once again usher the AI industry into the future with their latest innovation — AI modes that finally unlock comprehensive question-answering and problem-solving for users.”
Read more about the growing competition across AI here, here, and here.