Google, AI and Gen AI, Continued

Source: www.visualcapitalist.com, January 27, 2021.

I did some additional research to find a similar list of the top websites in 2023 and found an update to the 2020 data also on Visual Capitalist. What is fascinating Is that why the largest websites (in terms of monthly visits) by and large haven’t changed a lot, the other chairs on the deck of the ship are in some cases radically different.

Google, YouTube and Facebook continue to dominate the list and remain the top three websites used on a global basis. Visual Capitalist used data from web analytics firm SimilarWeb and came up with the list below. It is interesting to note that web properties owned by Alphabet and Facebook dominate the list and that when Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are combined, they make up 75% of the top twenty-five list’s total traffic.

Here are the top ten websites as of April 2023, in terms of monthly traffic in billions:

1.??????google.com, 83.9?

2.?????youtube.com, 32.7???????????

3.????facebook.com, 16.8?????????

4.????twitter.com, 6.4???

5.????instagram.com, 6.3?????????

6.????baidu.com, 4.7??????

7.?????wikipedia.org, 4.5

8.????yandex.ru, 3.3???????

9.????yahoo.com, 3.2?????

10.?xvideos.com, 2.9??

If you scan further down the list/infographic, you see that TikTok is now #15 on the list with 2.0 billion visits a month, up from #43 only 2 years ago. And openai.org is #17 on the list, with an amazing 1.8 billion visits a month.

Think about this number for just a second. The monthly traffic on OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT and other AI-powered tools has gone from only 20 million a month is April 2022 to over 1.8 billion a month in April 2023. If it were to keep up this growth, it could actually exceed TikTok and Amazon. This is nothing short of amazing. Again, the source of the infographic below is www.visualcapitalist.com

The rapid growth of Openai.com as documented above reinforces why I believe that it wil be impossible to ever “ban” it or wish it away. Instead, it seems to me a much more important and viable approach towards new technologies like this (and others that have not yet even been created) is to find ways to harness its’ true power and purpose and have it augment, not replace human intelligence.

So, to answer the question now finally about Google, 83.9 Billion searches a month (see above) times twelve equals just over 1 Trillion searches a year now, even before they get their chatbot cranked up.?