Today I got my invitation to try out the new SearchGPT, which is OpenAI’s attempt at creating some kind of revenue-generating market for itself. I was prepared to hate it, but in an exhaustive 30 second testing session, it’s actually pretty cool.
The first thing I wanted to try, naturally, is to see if a query which SHOULD bring up Slope would do any such thing. I asked if there were any websites that specialized in short selling stocks.
![](https://slopeofhope.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/search1-640x206.png)
It then presented me with a list of brokers, which isn’t even close to what I was asking.
![](https://slopeofhope.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/search2-640x389.png)
So, I got more specific (see, the thing with this kind of search engine is that it’s more of a dialectic experience as opposed to one-off queries).
![](https://slopeofhope.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/search3-640x119.png)
It then presented me a list of ZeroHedge and Hindenburg Research. Again, that isn’t what I was after (and, c’mon, ZH has become a permabull Goldman shill, so gimme a break). So I decided to cheat and use my name directly.
![](https://slopeofhope.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/search4-640x72.png)
That’s when things got a bit more useful and mildly impressive…………
![](https://slopeofhope.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/search5-640x300.png)
![](https://slopeofhope.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/search6-640x850.png)
![](https://slopeofhope.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/search7-640x497.png)
This was the response that I thought was pretty cool:
![](https://slopeofhope.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/search8-640x476.png)
In summary, I liked it more than I thought I would. The real question is – – – is this search experience so much better than Google that people will opt to use this instead? I have my doubts!