Google Search Is Dead! The Largest Casualty of the AI Revolution

byMrDon1

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Updated 12 months ago

Updated the Conclusion 11-30-23
From Dominance to Disruption: Unveiling the AI Revolution's Impact on Google

Let me take you on a walk down recent (to me) memory lane... Visualize this. My car broke down, so yes, I am walking down memory lane, to the nearest payphone. I need to call someone for help. Finally, I get home to where I had been busily clacking away on the typewriter in the living room capturing all of the titles of my serious vinyl collection.

Records that I would later use to create my own playlists and record them over to the reel-to-reel. As technology continues to advance, the typewriter's rhythm was replaced by the hum of computers and their keyboards, CDs replaced vinyl, and digital downloads are spelling the doom of CDs, ushering in a new era of music consumption.

Our family vacation memories were recorded on VHS tapes (or Video Eight). The movies that we enjoyed on a Friday night were rented from Blockbuster. All of this was then recorded through our new VHS Recorder. These recordings were then moved over to this new gadget called a computer with 5 1/4 inch Floppy Disks.

Encyclopedias were the lifeblood of knowledge and history being passed down through the generations. Every home had one. You couldn't complete your assignments without them.

The salesman was the young college man that came by to sell them (a volume at a time if need be). to pay for his education. Every year a new volume was printed to keep the history current.

THEN THINGS CHANGED

When Vince Cerf create the computer "handshake", the internet was born. Computers could now communicate with each other. Files could be shared. The rush was on to digitize everything. IBM saw that the creation of the Internet was going to be great for businesses and that all businesses would have computers. Imagine every piece of paper ever created, by every company, was now being copied and made available online.

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, both had a vision that one day computers would be in every home in America. They ended up being right. The digitization of all things noteworthy continued. This evolved into every piece of music, every video, and everything that could even be remotely important was placed on a computer.

All of this information is busting computers at the seams. Storage was becoming an issue. We tore through floppies, CDs, and tapes. Solid-state memory has taken over our personal computers with 1terebyte (TB) being the norm. The world today is storing nearly 175 zettabytes (1 zettabyte = 1 trillion terabytes). The information is out there. How do we get to it?

Dial-up Modems! Our computers became worse than our teenagers for hogging all of our phone time. Need to make a call? Kick the computer offline. Time for every household to get another phone line. The Baby Bells loved this idea. It doubled their revenue for phone lines. Just because you had an additional phone line, didn't mean you had service to connect to the internet.

For Internet services, you had to turn to Internet Service Providers (ISP) like America Online (AOL), CompuServe, Prodigy, or Microsoft Network (MSN). You were charged anywhere from $9.95 - $24.95 per month. For this price, you were allowed to check your email and explore the internet at speeds between 28-56Kps. Speed was measured not in seconds, but in minutes. Download a song from Napster you were looking at 4-12 minutes per song.

With the advancement of DSL & Fiber Optics, the phone and cable companies put all of the ISPs out of business. Traversing the internet has become faster. The world wide web was getting bigger by leaps and bounds. Companies we being created to index the internet. Early out of the gate were companies like Yahoo, Excite, Alta Vista, and Lycos. In September 1998, Google was born. With their simplistic design and accurate searches, they laid waste to their competition.

Google has created a catalog of all of the websites in the world and grouped them into the keywords that we use today. Their ability to catalog all of these sites has led them to be the master of the internet. We pay them fortunes to get noticed on their site results.

We have become obsessed with "googling it" for information.

THEN THINGS CHANGED AGAIN

The Artificial Intelligence Revolution was born in November 2022, when the open-source group gave ChatGPT to the public. Every man, woman, and child, now has access to the smartest, most adaptable, data-driven, analytical Personal Assistant ever created. This PA is available 24/7/365. It will never pull an attitude at 3 am when you have a stupid thought cross your mind and you wake it up. You simply ask your PA, in common terms, what is the theory of relativity. BOOM! You have an answer pulled from all of the relevant websites, logically and concisely. If you "googled" it, you would have a long list of websites to peruse. Starting with those that paid the most to get noticed, you can spend the next several hours going down the proverbial rabbit hole. Never again. In this scenario, did you notice what was missing? Your PA did not get stuck looking at ads, it just deep-dived for the answer.

So, the Personal Assistant Interviewing has begun. The current King of the Internet, Google, has presented BARD to the public. Computer King, Microsoft, has weighed in with BING. The Open Source Group has ChatGPT and its many variations. The initial public reaction is that Google fell flat on its face. Microsoft is well, Microsoft. The company that we all love to hate, but their PA is surprisingly well laid out. But the public is obsessed with the Open Source entrant, ChatGPT.

Added 11-30-2023

The Library

I liken Google to the Library. You remember that wonderful place where all of the world's information was housed, in books, and the friendly librarian who loves to tell you to "SHUSH!" knows where every book is and will help you find the books that you are looking for. There will always be a need for the library, just as there will always be a need for Google to catalog with world's information.

When was the last time that you went to the library for information? Why should you? If you want information today you just "Google It". Every book, encyclopedia, and data point ever created is there. You head over to google.com and search for anything that crosses your mind, like

"What is the Hottest Pepper Eaten?"

And Google dutifully delivered 1000s of pages of information. Everything from Pepper Eating Contests to Death From Pepper Eating. Google gave you everything that it thought you might be looking for. Life was good. You just had to sift through the results for what you wanted.

The Librarian has been replaced by ChatGPT. With real-world access to the internet and up to the minute news, ChatGPT can give you the answer immediately. Instead of Googling it, just say "Answer This" - What is the hottest pepper ever eaten...

So in summary, based on extensive testing and verification, the Carolina Reaper pepper from South Carolina holds the record as the hottest pepper ever eaten, measuring over 1.5 million SHU on average. Its intense heat can cause strong reactions in those who sample it whole.

Google is Dead - Long Live ChatGPT

Rest in Peace Google