The integration of OpenAI's technology into Microsoft-owned Bing has driven people to the little-used search engine and helped it compete better with market leader Google in page visits growth, according to data from analytics firm Similarweb.
Page visits on Bing have risen 15.8 percent since Microsoft
unveiled its artificial intelligence-powered version on February 7, compared
with a near 1 percent decline for the Alphabet-owned search engine, data till
March 20 showed.
The figures are an early sign of the lead the Windows maker
has taken in its fast-moving race with Google for generative AI dominance,
thanks to the technology behind ChatGPT, the viral chatbot that many experts
have called AI's "iPhone moment".
They also underscore a rare opportunity for Microsoft to
make inroads in the over $120 billion search market, where Google has been the
dominant player for decades with a share of more than 80 percent.
Gil Luria, an analyst at DA Davidson & Co, said that he
expects Bing to gain market share in search over the next coming months,
especially if Google continues to delay the integration of generative AI into
its product.
While Bing AI has been available to most users around the
world since February, Google began the public release of its chatbot Bard only
on Tuesday.
"Bing has less than a tenth of Google's market share,
so even if it converts 1 percent or 2 percent of users it will be materially
beneficial to Bing and Microsoft," Luria said.
App downloads for Bing have also jumped eight times globally
after AI integration, according to app research firm Data.ai. Downloads for the
Google search app fell 2 percent in the same period, the data showed.
Still, some analysts said that Google, which in the early 2000s
unseated then leader Yahoo to become the dominant search player, could overcome
the early setbacks to maintain its lead.
"Google's ranking algorithm can have a competitive edge
over that of competitors", Yongjei Jeong, an analyst at Mirae Asset
Securities in South Korea said, referring to how Google's algorithm helped it
beat Yahoo Search. © Reuters
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