Will AI and ChatGPT Kill Your Search Traffic?
Thinks Out Loud Podcast - Episode 381
It’s become a bit of a parlor game to predict whether ChatGPT and other AI tools spell doom for Google. Will the search giant flounder and fail? Or will it find a way to recover? A better question, though, might be “What happens to your traffic and business if Google does fail? Will AI and ChatGPT kill your search traffic?”
That’s not an easy question to answer. There are many factors at play, any of which could be the difference between Google’s continued dominance… and its doom. So, which is it? Will ChatGPT and AI disrupt the traffic and business you get from search? Or will Google recover and continue to claim its seat on the throne? That’s what this episode of Thinks Out Loud is all about.
Want to learn more? Here are the show notes for you.
Show Notes and Links
- The End of Google? (Thinks Out Loud Episode 372)
- Say Goodbye to Google, Hoteliers
- BrightEdge Channel Report
- How To Run Your Business As If Google Didn’t Exist (Thinks Out Loud Episode 298) – Tim Peter & Associates
- Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work – The Official Microsoft Blog
- Google’s AI chatbot Bard seems boring compared to ChatGPT and Microsoft’s BingGPT – Vox
- 5 ways that ChatGPT is better than Google Bard (and 3 ways it isn’t) | Windows Central
- Google Bard just took a big step toward being a proper ChatGPT rival
- Brian Roemmele on Twitter: “The time it took to reach 100 million users worldwide. Telephone: 75 years Mobile phone: 16 years World Wide Web: 7 years iTunes: 6.5 years Twitter: 5 years Facebook: 4.5 years WhatsApp: 3.5 years Instagram: 2.5 years Apple App Store: 2 years ChatGPT: 2 months” / Twitter
- Google planning new search engine while working on new search features under Project Magi
- Is Content Still King or Have the Gatekeepers Won? (Thinks Out Loud Episode 328) – Tim Peter & Associates
- Four Moments Every Marketer Should Know – Think with Google
- Revisiting 2023’s Most Important Trends in Digital Marketing (Thinks Out Loud)
- Caleb Watney on Twitter: “Fascinating new paper finds that AI tools increase productivity in customer support roles by 14% (as measured by issues resolved per hour) with the biggest impact on novice and low-skilled workers. https://t.co/pqsnVttD5q” / Twitter
- The Single Biggest Myth in Digital: Content is Expensive (Thinks Out Loud Episode 275)
- Big Digital Marketing Trends: Who Speaks For Your Business? (Thinks Out Loud Episode 377)
- Content is King, Customer Experience is Queen (Thinks Out Loud Episode 188) – Tim Peter & Associates
- How to Balance Technology and Humanity in Customer Experience (Thinks Out Loud Episode 378)
- How Lively Demonstrates Customer Experience is Queen (Thinks Out Loud Episode Episode 339)
- Big Digital Marketing Trends: Customer Experience is Cool (Thinks Out Loud Episode 375)
- Where Content, Community, and Customer Experience Meet (Thinks Out Loud Episode 346) – Tim Peter & Associates
- Big Trends: The Early Innings of AI in Marketing (Thinks Out Loud Episode 374)
- Should Your Business Use ChatGPT? (Thinks Out Loud Episode 379)
- Is ChatGPT Going to Steal Your Job? (Thinks Out Loud Episode 371)
- Why I’m not worried about AI causing mass unemployment