What Google AI products do people not want to use? Gemini is catching up to chatpt from a MAU perspective, ai overviews in search are super popular and staggeringly more used than any other ai-based product out there, a Google ai mode has decent usage, and Google Lens has surprisingly high usage. These products together dwarf everyone else out there by like 10x.

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ajross 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> ai overviews in search are super popular and staggeringly more used than any other ai-based product out there

This really is the critical bit. A year ago, the spin was "ChatGPT AI results are better than search, why would you use Google?", now it's "Search result AI is just as good as ChatGPT, why bother?".

When they were disruptive, it was enough to be different to believe that they'd win. Now they need to actually be better. And... they kinda aren't, really? I mean, lots of people like them! But for Regular Janes at the keyboard, who cares? Just type your search and see what it says.

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madeofpalk 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is Gemini, as a chatbot, a product that sustains current valuations and investment?

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famouswaffles 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>Gemini is catching up to chatpt from a MAU perspective

It is far behind, and GPT hasn't exactly stopped growing either. Weekly Active Users, Monthly visits...Gemini is nowhere near. They're comfortably second, but second is still well below first.

>ai overviews in search are super popular and staggeringly more used than any other ai-based product out there

Is it ? How would you even know ? It's a forced feature you can not opt out of or not use. I ignore AI overviews, but would still count as a 'user' to you.

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websiteapi 7 hours ago | parent [-]

we're curious what your source is

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famouswaffles 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Monthly Visits (chatGPT #5, Gemini #26): https://www.similarweb.com/blog/research/market-research/mos...

Search Traffic: https://x.com/Similarweb/status/2003078223135990246

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empiko 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

ChatGPT - 5.8b visits - -5.2% MoM

Gemini - 1.4b visits - +14.4% MoM

Yeah, ChatGPT is still more popular, but this does not show Gemini struggling exactly.

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websiteapi 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

doesn't seem accurate since gemini has many entry points

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famouswaffles 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Entry points ? The visits are accurate for the website and app. If you're talking about AI overviews, then that's meaningless for reasons I've already explained.

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RandallBrown 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I do understand why it makes it very hard to compare but it's certainly not meaningless. Google's AI overviews are pretty much the only way that I use AI.

	▲	famouswaffles 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I mean we're all talking about how Google is 'catching up' and 'taking over' Open AI right ? In that case, it genuinely is meaningless. AI Overviews, even if it had the usage OP assumes, is not a threat to Open AI or chatGPT. People use chatGPT for a lot of different things, and AI overviews only handles (rather poorly in my opinion) a small, limited part of the kind of things it gets used for. I use AI mode a lot. It's better than Overviews in every conceivable way, and it's still not a chatGPT replacement. https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/a253471f-8260-40c6-a2cc-aa93fe9f1...