Google is in shock, OpenAI is building its own search engine

OpenAI, ChatGPTThe company known as the creator of Google It is close to announcing its own search product to rival the search engine and AI-powered search startup Perplexity. According to Bloomberg,
OpenAI It may launch its new search engine as early as next Monday, May 13. This date falls one day before the start of Google’s I/O conference. Google is expected to announce several AI-related products at the conference. OpenAI’s search engine, ChatGPTAs an extension of , it is designed to pull direct and up-to-date web information and include citations. This, ChatGPTIt responds to the biggest criticisms of containing outdated information.

OpenAI‘s search product is quite similar to Perplexity’s solution. This startup offers an AI-driven search interface and includes quotes, images, and text. Perplexity is valued at around $1 billion and is run by a trio of engineers founded by Aravind Srinivas, who worked at OpenAI, Denis Yarats, who worked at Meta, and Johnny Ho, who left Quora.

Google is in shock, OpenAI is building its own search engine

OpenAIThis new search engine of ‘s aims to offer users a search experience compatible with existing information technologies. By using advanced artificial intelligence technologies, this platform will provide more effective access to information and will offer users more accurate and faster results in their information search processes. ChatGPT This search engine, which will work integrated with , is especially designed to include up-to-date information and quotations directly from the internet. In this way, users will gain a broader perspective when accessing information and will be able to evaluate the information more accurately.

As of 2024, Google is the global leader among search engines with a market share of 91.54%. Its closest competitor, Bing, has only 3.19% market share. Other major search engines include Yahoo and Baidu, but their market shares are much lower. Looking at the number of users and market shares, it is seen that Google continues its leadership on desktop and mobile platforms, especially on mobile, it has reached a high rate of 95.16%.

This data shows how dominant Google is not only as a search engine, but also in terms of traffic referrals and advertising revenues. It achieved a gain of $191 billion in advertising revenues in 2022. This clearly reveals how central a role Google has in users’ search and consumption habits on the internet.