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by bitpush 380 days ago
Short answer - nobody knows.

ChatGPT daily active users is 122.58 million, while Google Search's daily active users is known, but lets conservatively assume it is 2 billion.

You know the difference between 122.58 million and 2billion? About 2 billion. That is to say, Google Search is at a different league than ChatGPT.

This is before you consider how widely unprofitable ChatGPT is in its current form. There's no way they can scale using $20/mo (or $200/mo plans). Nobody in India is going to pay $$ to search for things.

My guess it ChatGPT will become mainstream like Netflix, where everybody knows its name but people will subscribe when they need to, and then cancel.