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IT Home reported on November 4 that, according to a Business Insider report early this morning (the 4th), OpenAI’s challenge to Google Search is now “beginning to show results.” Adam Fry, head of ChatGPT’s consumer product, confirmed that the volume of search-related queries on ChatGPT is roughly equivalent to 20% of Google Search’s query volume.
This summer, a survey report released by the Pew Research Center showed that searching for information was the most common use of AI among U.S. adults, with 42% of respondents having used AI to search for information.
Work ranked second: 38% of employed adult respondents had used AI to handle work tasks. Uses such as entertainment, getting news, and seeking medical advice were relatively uncommon.
The survey was not specifically about ChatGPT. The report noted that ChatGPT was the most popular AI chatbot: 44% of U.S. adults surveyed had used ChatGPT, compared with only 24% for second-place Gemini.
According to IT Home, last year Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai also discussed the competition between AI chatbots and Google Search in an interview with Bloomberg reporter Emily Chang.
Pichai said at the time: “Chatbots have reached hundreds of millions of users, but our search query volume is also growing. So I think this is far from a zero-sum game. Here’s a similar example: after TikTok appeared, everyone started using TikTok, but YouTube also continued to grow during that period and performed exceptionally well.”