ChatGPT Shifts to Its Own Search Index, Cutting Live Crawling by 81%

Log data from over 100 sites analyzed by Peec AI shows OpenAI's OAI-SearchBot crawling surged 97% while ChatGPT-User dropped 81%, as ChatGPT abandons real-time fetching via Google/Bing in favor of its own Labrador index.

2026-11-09 ~ 2026-11-09 · 2 related posts

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