Will LLM based discovery replace traditional search results within 12 months?
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Voices of Search // A Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Content Marketing Podcast
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What is the Voices of Search podcast and who is hosting this episode?
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So, guy, I want to transition to our lightning round. Let's do it. We've got five questions.
What is the lightning‑round question about LLM‑based discovery replacing traditional search?
This should be fun. You know, hopefully we're diving into each of these a minute or two, maybe more, depending on how exciting and fascinating we go. But um, let's dive into our lightning round. The first question. Buy or sell, will LLM-based discovery replace traditional search results within the next 12 months?
uh I would say no in the twelve month time frame. But to our discussion earlier, I think both are gonna remain. They each serve a purpose, you know.
Why does the guest believe LLM discovery won’t replace traditional search in the next 12 months?
SEO is dead. I I don't believe it's dead. I don't believe it will be. And to our earlier discussion, my personal guess they somehow merge over time because you need both probabilistic and deterministic answers. And I thought your point about how quickly Google has integrated AI into the search experience is the archetypal example of that right now.
No no question. And and I think, you know, Google has still has this huge r uh control over data and how consumers look for information that that not even, you know, open AI has yet. And so that that's a huge advantage in their ability to to craft an experience that's relevant to to consumers and to users online.
To your point, if we if you believe that broadly, at the broadest strokes, the LLMs are similar to each other, then brand name matters a ton. OpenAI is f uh, I one could argue, well ahead of the others, except Google, in that brand recognition and that that will matter over time to who goes to which LLM to ask questions. That's right.
How does Google’s data access and brand strength give it an advantage over OpenAI?
And Google's got the huge advantage there, in addition to the technical, like they should have the best crawl of the web in the world.
Yes. I mean, and to your point, I think one of the most unique things that's happened in the last three to four months, and I think as we get into the turn of this new year, is the expandy utility of Gemini. Google's made it very clear that they're going to make Gemini this core functioning uh AI tool that exists in your Gmail, exists in your, you know, your I think very soon. In your local search experience, it's going to be this little partner that wanders around. You know, I hate to bring up a Microsoft product in this conversation, but it will become the clippy of just the way you search online. And I don't think that it's too far-fetched to think that Gemini is behind the curve to OpenAI. I actually think they've made a lot of great advancements in the way that their models work and the way that they're
they'll deliver results to to to actually create pretty good parity with what what the opening eyes created.
To your point, I think we may see, you know, we've seen multi-hundred million dollar bloody battles in various B2B SaaS spaces. This could be a multi-trillion dollar battle between OpenAI and Google, where both are painting this picture of a future where, and I'm gonna mix words they've each said, you know, infinite context window that has access to your entire life becomes. ex uh uh as personalized as can be proactively helpful in doing things around your life.
What role does Google’s Gemini play in the future of AI‑enhanced search and productivity tools?
And that would have OpenAI maybe getting into productivity things. That has Google connecting all the data it has about you. That has both of them taking action on your behalf.
Yes.
That could be um quite shaping to our experiences as as as humans.
That's right. No question. I think that that's a direction that Google, you know, desperately wants to win the race at because I think the foundational basic LLM capabilities is just what we've been seeing for the past year.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the Voices of Search podcast and who is hosting this episode?
0:00–0:47
2
What is the lightning‑round question about LLM‑based discovery replacing traditional search?
0:47–1:17
3
Why does the guest believe LLM discovery won’t replace traditional search in the next 12 months?
1:17–2:23
4
How does Google’s data access and brand strength give it an advantage over OpenAI?
2:23–3:56
5
What role does Google’s Gemini play in the future of AI‑enhanced search and productivity tools?
3:56–4:39
6
What is the projected multi‑trillion‑dollar battle between OpenAI and Google for personalized AI assistants?
4:39–5:09