[kolinko]

> LLMs are not search engines, and I'm not gaining any followers or customers in any meaningful way because an LLM indexes my site.

Friends of mine run a service company, and they already see a significant number of customers reach out because they found them using ChatGPT (et al), not Google. By significant I mean ~20% or so.

Also, for e-commerce, Deep Research from OpenAI, is way better in doing product recommendations than Google. That's my goto place to find most stuff novadays (e.g. I purchased dancing shoes, pants, air cleaners, an air conditioner, supplements and a ton of other things using the recommendations of DR - no search engine comes even close to it)

[sshine]

> Deep Research from OpenAI, is way better in doing product recommendations than Google

Interesting, that’s not my experience and I’d be the first to replace Google if I could. I’ll have to try again.

[kolinko]

Hm, example queries that failed you? Also, did you do DR from OpenAI, or others? (OpenAI's is a different league, and people sometimes confuse that with Perplexity's or Google's).

For me, the main place where it fails is specific links to the stores and specific prices / opportunities. But when I want to find an item that fits a need (e.g. "quietest mobile AC" or "best ultra short throw projector for my specific use case", "collagen supplement that has clinical confirmation of the quality...") it works way better than Google. And I tried many product categories.