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Tech Competition is Helping Americans. Here's How.
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Tuesday • January 20, 2026
ChatGPT Is quietly replacing Google’s most important page, study finds
Google Search isn’t the Default Anymore
A new survey suggests ChatGPT isn’t just an occasional AI tool for quick answers or writing help anymore. For a growing number of users, it’s becoming the first screen they open — and the place they expect to run more of their daily digital life. According to new data from subscription bundling platform Bango, 72% of ChatGPT subscribers in the U.S. say they’ve set the chatbot as their homepage on desktop and mobile, replacing traditional starting points like Google Search.
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Wednesday • January 7, 2026
Naver doubles Google’s search market share in South Korea in 2025
According to Data from Research Firm Internet Trend
South Korea’s leading internet company, Naver, secured a dominant position in the search engine market in 2025, capturing 62.86% of the South Korean market share, more than twice Google’s share.
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Thursday • August 21, 2025
OpenAI Is Challenging Google—While Using Its Search Data
OpenAI Has Quietly Used Google Search Data Scraped by SerpAPI to Power ChatGPT
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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Tuesday • July 22, 2025
ChatGPT Usage Surges to 2.5 Billion Daily Prompts as AI Tool Becomes Mainstream
Out of that Total, Roughly 330 Million are Coming from Users Based in the United States
This growth marks a significant leap from where things stood late last year. ChatGPT’s increasing role in online habits is beginning to shift attention away from traditional search engines. Although Google remains dominant in overall search traffic, usage patterns are starting to change.
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Thursday • June 12, 2025
Behind the Curtain: ChatGPT juggernaut
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Has Been the Fastest-Growing Platform in History Ever Since the Chatbot Launched
OpenAI aims to replicate the insurmountable lead that Google built beginning in the early 2000s, when it became the world’s largest search engine. The dream: Everyone uses it because everyone’s using it. OpenAI is focusing particularly on young users (under 30) worldwide. The company is using constant product updates — and lots of private and public hype — to cement dominance with AI consumers. This fight is about winning two interrelated wars at once — AI and search dominance. OpenAI and others see Google as the most lethal rival because of its awesome access to data, and research talent, and current dominance in traditional search.
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Wednesday • June 11, 2025
Nvidia and Perplexity Team Up in European AI Push
The Chip Giant and AI Search Startup Are Offering Specialized AI Models for European Users, Aiming to Widen Their Reach in the Region
Nvidia and Perplexity are partnering to offer what they call localized and sovereign artificial intelligence models to their users in Europe, the companies said Wednesday.
The chip titan is working with local European partners, including the French AI firm H Company, to build open-source, sovereign AI models that will be offered through AI search startup Perplexity’s platform.
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