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ChatGPT has hit roughly 20% of Google Search volume, OpenAI says - 9to5Google

Publisher description: According to OpenAI, ChatGPT has managed to grow its search use to around 20% of Google Search’s total volume, a...

NewsAPI | Nov 3, 2026 | Ben Schoon

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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. 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.

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