Jeremiah MilbauerThree searches with similar volume. Do you think this reveals anything about how people use ChatGPT?
Paul BaclaceI think you discovered weekdays.
@baclace the point is that people search for chatgpt during the work week, but they search for wikipedia all the time— which might imply that it’s used more as a productivity tool than a knowledge source.
@jerelev I totally agree.
@baclace There's also a large weekend "reserve" interest. It would be fascinating to see who uses ChatGPT for: (1) work-related procedural knowledge ("how to generate regression plot"); (2) work-related automation ("write an email requesting a meeting"); (3) knowledge; (4) entertainment/creativity; (5) ???
@jerelev It definitely looks like the chatGPT trough is higher for weekends than Excel.
What do you think the near flatness of wikipedia during the holidays means? It does drop to a minimum (US and world), but not by much. That could suggest bots.
A related question is how much of search can reasonably be served as chat (basically one answer) versus a normal results page? I'm wondering how much people just prefer chat UX.
@baclace I think chat (as an interface for search) could be an exciting innovation, but it's not there yet with the current LLMs. Anecdotally people seem to like that chat can give search results + summarization of those results.