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by echelon 768 days ago
Rumor on Twitter is that OpenAI is launching their search product right ahead of Google I/O to rain on Google's parade.
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Sam Altman pre announced it will not be a search engine https://twitter.com/sama/status/1788989777452408943
It's possible they want to position it as something other than a search engine, like "answer engine" or "personal agent" or whatever, even if what it's meant to do is replace the traditional search engine.
OpenAI doesn't have enough brand credibility to pull an Apple and try to arbitrarily redefine a foundational terminology.
What's a search engine?