ChatGPT unveiled SearchGPT not long ago, aiming to change online searches forever. However, the response to Google’s AI competitor is pretty mixed.
The Washington Post reported conflicting reviews after interviewing a number of SearchGPT early testers. Some users found the tool’s summarizing abilities more useful than Google’s AI-generated responses. Others, however, thought that SearchGPT’s results and interface were lacking.
With the help of real-time web data and OpenAI’s AI models, SearchGPT is meant to provide quicker and more accurate results. Questions are keywords will be answered with a summary rather than the typical Google links. It can be quick and helpful in theory. However, according to the early testers, there are a lot of bugs that need to be resolved before SearchGPT can be fully functional.
For instance, early testers saw SearchGPT proclaim that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will be presenting at a tech conference soon, even though he wasn’t actually slated to attend the event – highlighting the issue of “hallucinated” information that is common in AI models.
Another area where SearchGPT falls short is in providing localized search results. Because of its extensive database and decades of experience, Google is the most trusted source for information about local businesses, products, and services. Google’s vast network of affiliates and subsidiaries guarantees that users obtain reliable and comprehensive data.
Conversely, SearchGPT lacks access to these kinds of reliable databases. When users search for local data, this restriction often leads to either inaccurate returns or no responses at all.
It should also be noted that there are other players in the AI-powered search engine market besides SearchGPT, despite OpenAI receiving a lot of attention for its breakthroughs in the field. Promising alternatives are provided by other startups like Perplexity AI.
It’s obvious from the early user feedback that SearchGPT needs to make major improvements before it can compete with Google’s long-standing dominance in the search engine market.
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