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Ever since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in late 2022, concerns have grown about how AI could disrupt Google\u2019s long-standing search dominance. Those fears intensified last year when OpenAI introduced search capabilities within ChatGPT, rivaling Microsoft\u2019s Bing and Perplexity. The chatbot\u2019s accuracy is praised so much that CEO Sam Altman himself claims he no longer uses Google Search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scraping Google Through SerpApi<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

However, a recent report by The Information<\/em> revealed that OpenAI has allegedly been relying on Google Search data<\/a> to enhance ChatGPT\u2019s responses. Instead of building everything from scratch, OpenAI reportedly taps into SerpApi<\/strong>, a paid web-scraping service that extracts real-time search results. Interestingly, SerpApi also lists Meta, Apple, and Perplexity as clients. Notably, OpenAI\u2019s name has now been removed from SerpApi\u2019s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experiments That Exposed The Practice<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Before the latest revelations, Abhishek Iyer, a former Google engineer, had already shown evidence that ChatGPT indirectly uses Google. He created dummy web pages indexed only by Google, which ChatGPT was later able to fetch information from. This suggested that the chatbot wasn\u2019t fully independent in handling real-time queries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google\u2019s Refusal and Quality Concerns With Bing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

OpenAI had earlier acknowledged that it uses its own web crawler, Bing, and publisher partnerships for search. But during Google\u2019s anti-trust trial last year, ChatGPT\u2019s search head Nick Turley admitted the company requested Google\u2019s index\u2014only to be denied. Turley also confessed that Bing\u2019s results often suffered from \u201csignificant quality issues,\u201d making them a short-term fix at best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What It Means For The AI vs. Search Battle<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The revelations highlight the massive challenge of building a reliable search index from scratch. While AI-driven chatbots like ChatGPT are emerging as alternatives to traditional search, their reliance on existing players like Google underlines how difficult it is to replicate decades of web indexing expertise. For now, ChatGPT\u2019s strength lies in user-friendly answers\u2014but it may still depend on Google\u2019s backbone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in late 2022, concerns have grown about how AI could disrupt Google\u2019s long-standing search dominance. Those fears intensified last year when OpenAI introduced search capabilities within ChatGPT, rivaling Microsoft\u2019s Bing and Perplexity. The chatbot\u2019s accuracy is praised so much that CEO Sam Altman himself claims he no longer uses Google […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":1299330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[584,63],"class_list":["post-1299327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-chatgpt","tag-google"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWait.. What?! 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