What Live Web Search in ChatGPT Brings, and What It Does Not

Originally published in Chinese on November 3, 2024. OpenAI's ChatGPT can now search the web in real time. Does that change the search market, and does it threaten the AI search products already ahead? Models have changed the paradigm and experience of search Over the past year, models have changed the product paradigm and experience of search. That ChatGPT can go online in real time is certainly meaningful in product logic. At the least it gives users a better experience and calibrates data quality. Given how OpenAI defines its conversational assistant, the logic and the product path have no big problems. For the AI search apps that have so far pulled ahead, a devastating blow does not necessarily follow. Competition has moved beyond whether a product can search the web. It is more about building and linking a whole chain of services. Web access is one important link in that chain, and over the long run it has several dimensions.