Adam Fry, who leads consumer product for ChatGPT, told Big Technology's Alex Kantrowitz that ChatGPT's volume of search-like queries is now roughly one-fifth of Google's. OpenAI published no data or methodology. Fry's definition is broad: any question that sends ChatGPT to search the web counts as a search.
The claim came days after Alphabet's third-quarter report, in which Sundar Pichai said Google's year-over-year query growth was the highest in five years. Google's search and other advertising revenue rose 12% to $63.3 billion in the quarter, below some analysts' expectations.
Search Engine Roundtable pointed out that the claim sits awkwardly with Google's statement that its own search volume is at an all-time high. No independent measurement has confirmed the ratio.