OpenAI Executive Says ChatGPT Search Volume Is About 20% of Google's

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Cailian Press, Ma Lan, Editor-in-Charge Xu Xiang, 2026-11-04 10:21

① According to the head of ChatGPT's consumer products, ChatGPT's search query volume now reaches roughly one-fifth of Google's search query volume; ② He also added that OpenAI gained 200 million new users in the past two months, with weekly active users jumping to 1.2 billion; ③ Chatbots are seizing Google's search business, which has also led investors to increasingly doubt Google's business prospects.

Cailian Press, November 4 (Editor Ma Lan) — Google's nightmare is not over yet. After investors questioned whether its search business could be hit by AI competitors, OpenAI took the opportunity to add some "hard evidence."

Adam Fry, head of ChatGPT's consumer products, recently told the media that ChatGPT's search query volume now reaches roughly one-fifth of Google's search query volume, with very fierce growth momentum, even though ChatGPT has only been around for about a year and a half.

He emphasized that people initially used ChatGPT to seek help with writing or programming, but over the past year, people's interests have spread to various fields, including searches for people, places and events, as well as financial or health questions. Basically, the content users used to search for with search engines is now increasingly being searched with ChatGPT.

Fry also added that OpenAI gained 200 million new users in the past two months, with weekly active users jumping to 1.2 billion. Users create 1.5 billion images with ChatGPT each week, and in addition, ChatGPT's voice mode has 250 million weekly active users.

Challenges Facing Google

Fry pointed out that one of ChatGPT's biggest advantages over Google Search is its personalization features and contextual understanding. For example, when people ask "How tall is the Eiffel Tower," a general search engine treats it as a one-off question, but ChatGPT may understand through context that the user might be traveling to Paris, and this relevance makes users more willing to use ChatGPT.

A report released by the Pew Research Center this summer shows that the main use of artificial intelligence at present is searching for information, with 42% of American adults saying they have used AI to search for information. Among them, 44% of respondents said they have used ChatGPT, while second-ranked Gemini had only 24%.

Google has not yet responded to the threat of ChatGPT's surging search volume, but its CEO Pichai discussed the related topic last year. He believes that Google Search and chatbots are not a zero-sum game, and that while the user scale of chatbots expands, Google Search's query volume has also grown.

At the same time, some people point out that chatbots still have hallucination problems, so the content they search out is not entirely reliable, and blindly following the advice they give may even lead to serious consequences.

Nevertheless, investors are increasingly questioning whether Google's search business can maintain its dominant position. Some point out that years of substantial monopoly have made Google numb and complacent, causing Google Search to become worse and worse, and it could have its market taken away by chatbots at any time.

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