Will generative AI make the US$68 billion SEO industry obsolete?

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Google, Microsoft and others boast that generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT will make searching the internet better than ever for users. For example, rather than having to wade through a sea of URLs, users will be able to just get an answer combed from the entire internet.

There are also some concerns with the rise of AI-fueled search engines, such as the opacity over where information comes from, the potential for “hallucinated” answers, and copyright issues.

But one other consequence is that I believe it may destroy the US$68 billion search engine optimisation industry that companies like Google helped create.

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