Comment by kridsdale1
1 year ago
Backing this up. Google is presently most feeling threatened by TikTok, not OpenAI.
Because an entire generation of new American adults does not use web browsers, like much at all.
Want a burger? You probably open Chrome, go to Google or Kagi and type “Burger $myCity”
People under 25 use TikTok and Instagram and just look for “burger” and are blasted by 300 10s videos of real people munching and smiling. Like a perfect commercial and entirely crowdsourced.
That’s the new internet. The kids only know ‘content’. They don’t know what the fuck an HTML file is.
I'm curious to what extent this is honest to God actually true. Maybe the very first time I ever move to a new city and want a burger, my first thought is find some directory service telling me where burgers can be found. Right now, I have a kitchen and a grill and would make the burger myself as a first choice, and if not, I've lived in the same house for seven years now and have a great dive bar a block away I can walk to that my wife and I have hung out at forever where we know the owner and staff and they make terrific burgers, better than anywhere I've been in the city in the now nine years I've lived in this city.
Do people really just perpetually not know where to get something they want in the place they live?
> Do people really just perpetually not know where to get something they want in the place they live?
No but a) people travel and b) the young post-college demographic is usually new to the area. By virtue of being young and freshly out of college. They really don’t know the city yet!
Personally when I travel my search for burgers goes straight to Apple Maps.