Search is Not Quite Dead


AI is changing how people learn stuff, but not necessarily how they buy. I came across an intriguing new study by researchers at Harvard Business School and Stanford examining exactly how people are shifting between AI tools and traditional search. The headlines and pro stars warn us AI is fast replacing search tools like Google. Um … that’s not really what’s happening. Drawing on a large dataset, the analysis reviewed a full year of first-party data across 973 websites representing roughly...