OpenAI's search crawler now hits 18% of Googlebot's request volume, up from ~6% in July
firstadopter · x · 2026-11-03
Weekly tracking by tickerplus shows OpenAI's search crawler reached 18% of Googlebot's request volume in October. Growth accelerated from August: weekly figures rose from 5.3–7.5% in July to 17.5–21.2% in October.
One of the clearest quantitative signals yet that AI search is scaling against traditional web crawling, with implications for SEO and publishers.
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