OpenAI’s search-crawler activity accelerated in August. Weekly requests rose from 5.3–7.5% of Googlebot’s volume in July to 17.5–21.2% in October, with the latest weekly value at 19.2% on October 26th.
For October overall, search-crawler requests reached 18.1% of Googlebot’s volume. ChatGPT’s user-directed page requests added 6.2%, bringing the combined figure to 24.3%.
In a November 2 tweet, Alex Kantrowitz reported that OpenAI’s internal data puts ChatGPT search volume at approximately one-fifth of Google’s.
Alex Kantrowitz@Kantrowitz
New: OpenAI says it has internal data that shows ChatGPT search volume is already about a fifth of Google’s.
The company tells me it believes its share is growing quickly. More to come on Big Technology.
11:55 PM · Nov 2, 2026 · 33.7K Views
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