Neil Patel predicts Google Search and ChatGPT will converge, each adopting the other's features. ChatGPT leads in pure LLM-based search, while Google Lens handles 20 billion searches monthly. Google just rolled out its biggest search interface change in 25 years: an intelligent search box.
So my prediction is Google will look more like ChatGPT and ChatGPT will look more like Google in the future. What do you mean by that? So when you think about Google, people associate Google with traditional search. We know from a, I'm not talking about it from an engineering perspective, but if you're looking at just LLMs and usage from people using it purely for search, ChatGPT is the winner by far. It has the majority of usage. I'm assuming you agree with that statement if you're excluding AI overviews. The second winner is Google. They're in the number 2 place with AI overviews, Gemini, et cetera, right? Yeah. AI mode, et cetera. But most people associate Google Search with just traditional search in which, hey, you're going to get some blue links and some videos and maybe an AI overview. You can go to AI mode to see more, or you can go to Gemini. You can do Lens on your phone, but not that many people use it. They're at roughly 20 billion searches a month right now for Google Lens, which I know seems like a lot. But to put it in perspective, Google's getting around 13.7 billion searches a day. Just, you know, people just typing in some queries. So the 20 is not bad, but it's not a big chunk percentage-wise. And that again is monthly. And Google just made some new announcements. They changed their search box and made it an intelligent search box. It's the biggest change to search, to the search box in 25 years. So I don't know.
