What's At Stake In The Fresh Battle For Search Dominance with Ai Being Introduced
What's At Stake In The Fresh Battle For Search Dominance with Ai being introduced
The release of OpenAI’s conversational chatbot ChatGPT late last
year set
off the alarm bells at Google’s headquarters in Mountain
View, California, as the company’s management viewed the nascent technology as
a serious threat to its core search business. To make things worse, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is working
closely with Microsoft, one of Google’s last remaining competitors in the
search market (if you can even call it competition).
And sure enough, as Statista's Felix
Richter reports, Google’s worst fears with respect to ChatGPT
became reality on Tuesday, when Microsoft
announced a new Bing running on a next-generation OpenAI model
that is “more powerful than ChatGPT” and customized specifically for search.
“AI will
fundamentally change every software category, starting with the largest
category of all – search,” Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s
chairman and CEO, said in a statement, calling the AI-powered versions of Bing
search and Edge browser “an AI copilot for the web.”
That announcement was arguably the most obvious attack on Google
and its search business since the launch of Bing in 2009. And while one could
argue that Bing’s arrival hardly made a dent in Google’s dominance, this time
things feel differently, as technological shifts have often coincided with
shifts in the balance of power – just ask Nokia. But even if Google successfully manages
to defend its dominant position in the search market, losing just a couple of
percentage points in market share would translate into billions of dollars in
lost advertising revenue.
You will find more infographics at Statista
According to estimates from Statista’s Digital
Market Insights, global search advertising revenue
amounted to $260 billion last year and could climb to $400 billion by 2026.
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