ChatGPT's search volume is now roughly 20% of Google's. Wow, people were really sick of Google, huh?
OpenAI reports that ChatGPT's search-like query volume has reached approximately 20% of Google's total search volume. This shift suggests a growing consumer preference for AI-driven conversational search over traditional search engine results.
Why it matters
The rapid adoption of AI chatbots for information retrieval poses a significant competitive threat to Google's long-standing dominance in the search market.
People were getting fed up with Google search, which made it easy for ChatGPT to step in. Robert Michael/picture alliance via Getty Images Google search results had been frustrating people for a long time — now they have another option. Searching for information is the most common use of chatbots like ChatGPT. OpenAI's Adam Fry told the Big Technology newsletter that ChatGPT has around a fifth of Google's search query volume. OpenAI is coming for Google Search, and it's working. "ChatGPT's volume of search-like queries is now roughly one-fifth the volume of queries of Google," Adam Fry, ChatGPT's consumer product lead, told Alex Kantrowitz of the Big Technology newsletter. It's good news for OpenAI. For Google? Not so great. It not only shows that people are willing to use AI, but that people were really, really, fed up with Google search results.
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