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OpenAI says ChatGPT is catching up to Google in search

By · Via The Verge · Published by Everything Blog

In short

Adam Fry, OpenAI's consumer product lead, revealed that queries triggering web searches in ChatGPT have reached roughly one-fifth of Google's overall scale, an achievement that contrasts sharply with Microsoft Bing's historic 3 percent market share. The system powers its underlying search infrastructure by combining a proprietary internal index with Microsoft Bing. Meanwhile, early trials displaying sponsored product images have caused no lasting usage declines, giving the company confidence to expand advertising before a potential initial public offering.

Key points

  • OpenAI is gaining unprecedented ground against traditional search engines where legacy co…: OpenAI is gaining unprecedented ground against traditional search engines where legacy competitors struggled to gain double-digit market share.
  • The company is developing an Intelligent UI to make search responses more interactive and…: The company is developing an Intelligent UI to make search responses more interactive and visually dynamic for users.
  • Monetization through expanded advertising is serving as a major pathway to achieve profit…: Monetization through expanded advertising is serving as a major pathway to achieve profitability prior to a possible initial public offering next year.

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In many circles, “Ask Chat” has replaced “Google it,” and that’s reflected in a new announcement from OpenAI: the volume of search queries run through ChatGPT now equals 20 percent of the volume run through Google.

OpenAI says ChatGPT is catching up to Google in search

OpenAI says ChatGPT processes one-fifth the volume of search queries as Google.

OpenAI says ChatGPT processes one-fifth the volume of search queries as Google.

Adam Fry, OpenAI’s consumer product lead for ChatGPT, made the announcement at a press event on Monday. He said the company defines a search as any time a user inputs a query that results in a web search, as opposed to tasks like defining a term or a simple how-to explanation. (Fry did not specify the source of the Google search volume number.)

Having one-fifth as many searches as Google is still a long way from overtaking it, but for comparison, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said during Google’s 2023 antitrust trial that Bing had about 3 percent of the search engine market share after trying for more than a decade.…

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