In the United States Of America Bing Only Lost Share Since the Large Language Model (LLM) Hype, Google Gained More Than 1%
The sole contribution was pollution (of the Web and the planet, via emissions)
Based on statCounter's Web survey, Google's share in search in the US rose from 86.49% (when ChatGPT was unveiled) to 87.59% this month. A lot of these gains were at Microsoft's expense as it lost 0.5% and DuckDuckGo also lost share, possibly because nowadays more gullible users recognise that it is merely a proxy of Microsoft and has nothing to do with privacy.
The learning curve seems to be something like this: 1) LLMs are not new. 2) LLMs have no comprehension, they are not "hey hi" (AI). 3) LLMs don't work reliably. 4) LLMs will never replace search (finding actual pages composed by actual human beings who know what they're talking/writing about it). 5) LLMs lack a business model and will never find any because (2-4). █
