OpenAI: ChatGPT now handles search volume equal to 20% of Google's

thsottiaux · x · 2026-11-04

OpenAI announced that the volume of search queries run through ChatGPT now equals 20% of the volume run through Google. Hayden Field notes that in many circles 'Ask Chat' has replaced 'Google it', and thsottiaux confirmed the story with Chat itself — a milestone showing conversational AI search is genuinely displacing traditional search at scale.

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