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Kevin Okemwa

You.com CEO claims Google's reign as an "untouchable monopoly" in search will end soon — even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman ditched "Google searches" for an AI alternative

June 2024; Richard Socher, Founder and CEO, You.com on FULL STK Stage during day two of Collision 2024 at the Enercare Centre in Toronto, Canada.

For a long time, Google has been synonymous with search, arguably because of its vastly popular search engine. However, the emergence of generative AI and tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT search are causing a paradigm shift in the category.

Shortly after Google was ruled as an illegal monopoly in search, a former engineer at the company warned that it might have bigger fish to fry with OpenAI's temporary prototype search tool — SearchGPT— than its antitrust monopolist ruling and pending regulation.

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