OpenAI Is Challenging Google - While Using Its Search Data (theinformation.com)
(Friday August 22, 2025 @11:22AM (msmash)
from the closer-look dept.)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/22/1442208/openai-is-challenging-google---while-using-its-search-data
- Source link: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-challenging-google-using-search-data
An anonymous reader [1]shares a report :
> As it tries to unseat Google, OpenAI is relying on search data from an unlikely source: Google. OpenAI has been using Google search results scraped from the web to help power ChatGPT responses, according to two people with knowledge of it.
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> The Google search data helps answer ChatGPT queries on current events, such as news, sports and equity markets, one of the people said. OpenAI is getting the data from SerpApi, an eight-year-old web-scraping firm, which listed OpenAI as a customer on its website as recently as May last year. It removed the reference for reasons that couldn't be learned.
[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-challenging-google-using-search-data
> As it tries to unseat Google, OpenAI is relying on search data from an unlikely source: Google. OpenAI has been using Google search results scraped from the web to help power ChatGPT responses, according to two people with knowledge of it.
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> The Google search data helps answer ChatGPT queries on current events, such as news, sports and equity markets, one of the people said. OpenAI is getting the data from SerpApi, an eight-year-old web-scraping firm, which listed OpenAI as a customer on its website as recently as May last year. It removed the reference for reasons that couldn't be learned.
[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-challenging-google-using-search-data
OMG, the scraping revolution (Score:4, Insightful)
by Mr. Dollar Ton ( 5495648 )
That's all there's to the "AI" - scraping and regurgitation.
Is OpenAI Scrapping or APi'ing? (Score:2)
by TheWho79 ( 10289219 )
Is OpenAi scraping SerpAPI via SerpAPI's API, or are they just bumping into something that SerpAPI has left laying around? That is the only questions left. (that, and how fast will SerpAPI's Google access get pulled?)
Because finding Google 'serps' in ChatGPT SearchGPT is next to almost impossible. (sorry to link drop, but I've following this saga indepth over here: [1]https://www.searchengineworld.... [searchengineworld.com] )
But, everybody loves to rag on OpenAI and the internet has had this story wrong, almost entirely up unti
[1] https://www.searchengineworld.com/we-have-a-new-chapter-in-the-saga-of-openai-using-google-serps
Unlikely source? (Score:2)
How is Google ever an unlikely source of search data?
Re: (Score:1)
LLM agents can search the web for data and a google search is a great way to get to that. You don't have to agree to any terms of service when using google search. There is nothing wrong with this. Besides, Google gets paid when its pages get delivered for the ad content on those pages.