OpenAI's Adam Fry stated "ChatGPT’s quantity of search-like queries is now approximately one-fifth the quantity of queries of Google," in an interview alongside Alex Kantrowitz. "ChatGPT has gone from one milliard to 1.2 in fair the final two months," he added.
That seems amazing to me, particularly since Google says their hunt quantity is at an all-time high.
But Adam Fry from OpenAI agreed, he said, "It’s a beautiful amazing figure whenever you think concerning it, chiefly since we started fair concerning a twelvemonth and a fractional ago."
"That’s approximately 100 myriad users in 30 days, and another 100 myriad in another 30 days. The growth is fair going big, and we’re staying extremely focused on how accelerated ChatGPT is growing," he added.
How is this possible? He explained:
- "Every period you ask a inquiry and go hunt the web, that’s a search."
- "What we’ve seen complete the final twelvemonth is group have grown into all these another topics. Things akin you’re looking up a individual or group or a location or a thing, and it requires up-to-date information. That’s a key element."
- "Another big part is backing questions or health questions, anywhere you really desire to create certain it’s up-to-date data that’s fairly factual, and we’ll do a web hunt for those questions."
As Glenn Gabe said, so that method ChatGPT is bigger than Bing now. "So it's bigger than Bing now? Hmm...," he wrote.
So it's bigger than Bing now? Hmm... -> ChatGPT Consumer Product Lead Adam Fry says ChatGPT has hit 1.2B WAUs, adding 200M complete the former two months, and says its hunt quantity is now ~20% of Google's. Also, sound reaches 250M weekly users
When asked what is counted as a "search": "Every period you ask a inquiry and go hunt the web, that’s a search."
"What we’ve seen complete the final twelvemonth is group have grown into all these another topics. Things akin you’re looking up a individual or group or a location or a thing, and it requires up-to-date information. That’s a key element."
"Another big part is backing questions or health questions, anywhere you really desire to create certain it’s up-to-date data that’s fairly factual, and we’ll do a web hunt for those questions." https://t.co/0yrcg7jGtO
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) November 3, 2026
Fwiw, Bing has 5% hunt share
— Alex Kantrowitz (@Kantrowitz) November 3, 2026
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