I have for programming searches. ChatGPT can give me things that would take 5+ minutes of searching to hone in on. Then again, I run an ad blocker so no loss for them.

Honestly google probably doesnt make any money at all on searches like "how do call rust from python?". They make money on searches with buy intent where people search for "buy gps for car"

I have a browser extension (ChatGPTBox) that puts ChatGPT one click away on every DDG search I do, and it's certainly now often where I go next if DDG doesn't get me the result vs appending "!g" (to send the search to Google).

In that respect it's not replacing all my searches, but it seems to be replacing the "hard ones" where it's hard to compete with Google at a disproportional rate. If that is actually the case, it'd spell bad news for Google whether or not it kills search - if it becomes cheaper/easier to compete by offering a mix of less complete search with an OpenAI integration, it opens the door for far more attempts at competing with them.

For any domain specific questions or discussions I use ChatGPT because it’s so much better than Google. People underestimate how many fields it’s already valuable in beyond programming.

I use Google for basic bitch things like finding a company website or what time is it in Tokyo.