Friday, March 3, 2023

ChatGPT Is Growing So Fast, It Now Attracts as Much Web Traffic as Bing - Michael Kan, PC Magazine

Users in India are the second biggest source of traffic for ChatGPT, behind the US, according to web traffic analytics provider Similarweb.  In a bit of irony, ChatGPT is growing so fast the AI-powered program is starting to rival Microsoft’s Bing search engine in terms of web traffic.  The news is ironic because Microsoft itself has begun integrating ChatGPT into Bing, which did spark a bump in web traffic to the company’s search engine. But according to Similarweb, the traffic gains “appear to have been fleeting." Microsoft recently muzzled the new Bing’s capabilities to prevent the chats from going off the rails.