The Future Of Search Engines

Despite narrowing down the choices here for non-tech users, the market and the OSINT space are about to get interesting again The introduction of Bing ChatGPT and Google Bard will likely see new competition between artificial intelligence and its potential to revolutionise searching and OSINT. Now the OSINT-er has an AI to contend with, to train, to understand sufficiently well so as not to be inadvertently ‘directed/influenced’ by the AI itself ‘choosing’ what it considers the better-desired results of its master when the OSINT-er should be after a truth.

The point is that no matter what happens, there will undoubtedly continue to be speciality search engines that offer a superior search experience over Google and others. They will be accompanied by other search engines for bespoke hardcore OSINT, shopping, or news and business intelligence etc as well as now exploiting ChatGPT/Bard; using AI to search and actually make some form of decision about what to return to the user. All this will certainly add a new interesting component to search results e g could/would ChatGPT/Bard adversely influence the user, or make the OSINT-er’s job harder/easier?

It looks like we will continue to be having lots of multiple-searching choices However, the next greatest risk is how we develop and maintain our human cognitive capability to distinguish between what we are being served and who is driving whom when we go seeking things out the OSINT-er still likes to do the actual human thinking of analysis, and arguably gets nervous when anyone or even anything else tries to do the thinking for them.