Google Search vs. ChatGPT: how best to search for information, in the April 1 edition of the Good Tech newsletter
In the last year, AI has started to go directly into search pages, and Google integrates synthesized answers through AI Overview. The result? Fewer and fewer people are getting to the original sites. In tomorrow's edition of the Good Tech newsletter, we look at how to better search for information on the web and what the consequences of the fact that more and more people are turning to artificial intelligence.
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Until recently, this was one of the most common reflexes in the world: you wanted to know something, you opened Google. “Give me a Google” has also become one of the most used expressions in Romanian after “to google” effectively became a verb in English. But, in the meantime, we experienced a major change. Today, in the face of the same curiosity, you have another option that seriously competes with Google: AI.
Google gives you a list of links and lets you navigate through them yourself. The AI gives you an answer directly, already synthesized, already explained. One puts you to work, the other shortens your process. The temptation is obvious. ChatGPT makes your life easier than Google.
And Google didn't stand still either. In the past year, it has begun to massively integrate AI directly into the search engine, through Gemini. If you've searched for anything recently, you've probably already seen that auto-generated answer displayed above classic links, basically a mini-article of sorts that tries to give you a quick answer.
Google is trying to combine the two worlds: to remain a library of links, but also to become an AI that explains things to you on the spot.
This makes the choice even more complicated. But I think that maybe a good question is not necessarily “where am I looking?”, but “what kind of answer do I need?”. Because depending on that, the right choice can become obvious. In tomorrow's edition of Good Tech, we try to find answers.
