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The AI chat age of search

Former student and eConsultancy writer extraordinaire Bex Sentance left an insightful comment on my post about AI chat search:

I wrote a piece recently on ChatGPT and the benefits of conversational search (linking because I'm proud of it, although it was published in mid-December, so it's a touch out of date), and as part of the research for it I looked up what percentage of searches are informational queries (i.e. queries that can be answered with a simple fact) rather than searches for websites. The weird part was that the most recent study, and stat, I could find, was from 2007.

Given how much search has shifted in the 16 years since, that is a peculiar omission in the literature. But what there is remains interesting: