As a lot of you realize, OpenAI launched Search within ChatGPT final week. And as many suspected, the connection between Microsoft and OpenAI appears to nonetheless be sturdy, as a result of evidently the ChatGPT Search index comes from Bing – for now not less than. That isn’t to say, ChatGPT Search doesn’t depend on different companions, they do.
I imply, The Verge covered this point saying, “The search performance was constructed with “a mixture of search applied sciences,” together with Microsoft’s Bing, Fry stated.” Plus, on the AMA with OpenAI, that I linked to final week, OpenAI’s VP of Engineering confirmed that ChatGPT Search makes use of Bing. They wrote, “we use a set of providers and Bing is a crucial one.”
However then Ivan Hristov posted how a lot of ChatGPT Search Bing really handles and it looks as if a lot of its net index. Ivan wrote on LinkedIn, “After some testing, I discovered a quirk within the ChatGPT search performance: it seems that most searches are powered by Bing’s index. I confirmed this by checking my Cloudflare/NGINX logs – regardless of ChatGPT having its personal bots, Bing performs a major function right here.”
He added “that this has some implications.” “Web sites that aren’t listed by Bing (on account of identified bugs or penalties) gained’t seem in ChatGPT’s search outcomes.”
He then shared this chart displaying a website that acquired a penalty by Bing, the screenshot is from Bing Webmaster Instruments. However he added that ChatGPT Search will not present it. He wrote, “I even triggered a Bing penalty on one in every of my websites a couple of weeks in the past to see the way it affected visibility, and, as anticipated, it disappeared from ChatGPT search outcomes too. The web site is working simply excellent on Google.”
Mike King replied to that put up saying, “Good validation/verification right here. Fabrice confirmed this at Tech search engine marketing Join as properly.” Fabrice Canel is the Principal Product Supervisor at Microsoft Bing.
So if you happen to at the moment wish to rank in ChatGPT Search, it’s essential be listed by Microsoft Bing Search.
This doesn’t imply the search outcomes are the identical, however moderately they share the identical index of net pages and paperwork.
Simply evaluating some ChatGPT Search outcomes to Bing’s search outcomes and seeing some large inconsistencies there. Together with some prime rating sources in ChatGPT Search that are not on web page one of many Bing SERPs for the question. We all know Bing is a crucial supply for ChatGPT search, however… pic.twitter.com/ytfPR63Lno
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) November 3, 2024
Hat tip to @ipullrank for recognizing this.
Discussion board dialogue at LinkedIn.
