ChatGPT has hit roughly 20% of Google Search volume, OpenAI says

According to OpenAI, ChatGPT has managed to grow its search use to around 20% of Google Search’s total volume, a staggering figure. Google Search has had a massively dominant lead in the search space, with Microsoft’s Bing a distant competitor with a single-digit share at any given time. But, following its push into AI-powered search about 2 years ago, OpenAI says that ChatGPT is catching up in a big way. Speaking at an OpenAI press event/chat yesterday, ChatGPT consumer product lead Adam Fry confirmed that search volume in ChatGPT is “roughly one-fifth (20%) of the volume of queries of Google.” There’s a lot of wiggle room there, as the source of Google’s search volume wasn’t revealed.