SISTRIX Reports Sharp Drop In ChatGPT Web Searches

SISTRIX reports that ChatGPT is triggering live web searches far less often for people who use the app without logging in.

In daily spot-checks over the last two weeks, the share of answers that called the web fell from above 15% to below 2.5%. SISTRIX does not assign a cause and notes the observation applies to anonymous sessions.

What Changed

SISTRIX says it “analyses numerous ChatGPT responses to a wide variety of prompts” each day and recently “noticed that ChatGPT uses web searches significantly less frequently.”

It adds that, “at…