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People mostly use Google to find ChatGPT website

People will still look for ChatGPT website

They won't look for "Bing" to use ChatGPT

It's similar with Edge, even after they moved to Chromium, most people use it to download Chrome

Google will soon release their own ChatGPT, so it's already game over for Bing

Microsoft didn't make ChatGPT, so there is no brand fidelity among ChatGPT users

And if you use ChatGPT, you don't need to use Bing or Google, it's just a web app; once you found it, you don't need to look for it again, you bookmark it, or it's in your browser history and accessible from your address bar

I don't understand this movement to promote Microsoft/Bing, when the star of the show is ChatGPT itself, ChatGPT makes Google/Bing useless to begin with

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> They won't look for "Bing" to use ChatGPT

No insider knowledge, but it would seem a marketing snafu to go down that route. ChatGPT has brand awareness: Microsoft has exclusive access to ChatGPT. They've been canny with Github by _not_ branding it Microsoft.

>And if you use ChatGPT, you don't need to use Bing or Google

Indeed. So how can Microsoft disintermediate Google given they don't own either the browser or current internet search? Windows is one possibility: integrate ChatGPT direct into Windows search. The market certainly isn't as big as mobile - but it's not small either.

All speculation obviously. I'll have the popcorn out too.

Perhaps they could anthropomorphize the language model through some kind of playful character related to office tasks.

How about a paper clip?

If they bring back Clippy, I might return to Windows.

The thing is, before it’ll answer your first question, it makes you apologize for making fun of it all these years. And the words you give it had better resemble sincerity.

Chat-Clippy-T

Maybe a choose your own assistant. Cortana, Clippy, BonziBuddy, Peedy (the green parrot), Hoverbot (robot), Scribble (cat), PowerPup, BOB. Would anyone be around to sue if Microsoft added a purple gorilla to bing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Agent

It is pretty amazing that there has been almost 25 years of attempts at this, and they have all been terrible, and suddenly overnight the world is enthralled because one works.

Microsoft being good at marketing! What a dreamy world that would be eh.

MS being MS I believe they will take the stupidest decision possible. And Google will take over with their Bard.

I mean this chatGPT thing isn't even that useful. I find it super weird that people are using it. Considering it's not accurate and the amount of guardrails, I find it a bit odd. But I love writing and I know how to write so maybe that's on me.

It’s because Microsoft bought half of OpenAI. Practically speaking, OpenAI is Microsoft’s AI product development lab. If Microsoft wants Bing to be the sole public interface to GPT, I promise you they have the leverage to make that happen.

And if you use ChatGPT, you don't need to use Bing or Google, it's just a web app; once you found it, you don't need to look for it again

I just looked it up (never used it before), and it’s a “sign up” button behind a “try it” button on a landing page. You’re a HN user, but 95% of average internet users simply close the tab at this point.

ChatGPT offered and available right away in a browser urlsearch bar will make a revolution for a browser that does it.

Meta: ignoring nuances like this may make otherwise perfect and well-designed products CRASH. “It’s just few clicks away” puts an umbrella over your funnel.

You're not wrong in general, but it's now at 100 million active users, and they clearly weren't expecting that rate of growth.

>People mostly use Google to find ChatGPT website People will still look for ChatGPT website

On that note, couldnt Google just show bongs ChatGPT results? I suppose there are probably some legal issues there.

I dunno, my search results usually decrease in quality when a bong is involved

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