ChatGPT Appears To Use Google Search As A Fallback

Aleyda Solís conducted an experiment to test how fast ChatGPT indexes a web page and unexpectedly discovered that ChatGPT appears to use Google’s search results as a fallback for web pages that it cannot access or that are not yet indexed on Bing.

According to Aleyda:

I’ve run a simple but straightforward to follow test that confirms the reliance of ChatGPT on Google SERPs snippets for its answers.

Created A New Web Page, Not Yet Indexed

Aleyda created a brand new page (titled “LLMs.txt Generators”) on her website, LearningAISearch.com. She…