News Open AI plans to steal Google’s thunder by announcing an AI-powered search engine one day before Google I/O 2024 — report

Great, a search engine that will be even worse at actually finding the web page you want rather than a page of random garbage listicles the engine thinks you might want.
 
Google search fills the first 1~2 pages with AI-written useless trash sites that don't have the relevant info I'm looking for.

If it can filter that stuff out, it'd be an easy win.
 
From a different perspective: I put Windows copilot on my aging mother 's computer and we both love it. Her because she doesn't have to dig through pages looking for information, and me because she can't install malware through copilot results.
 
I thought MS was the first with this using Open-AI with Bing & Edge.
To use it you just click the copilot button on any search. You can even turn it off for now to avoid the space taking AI opinion rant.

I don't think Open-AI competing will matter much though. It doesn't matter how much better the search engine is, most people just use Google because it is name brand or cool or something.

Google has been less than the best in search effectiveness at least since the advent of Bing, possibly longer. They are still the most used.