OpenAI web search not a threat to Google Search... yet

Yesterday OpenAI announced that ChatGPT would gain some new shopping features, like recommended products, review roundups, and listing links to buy items at different websites.

OpenAI told TechCrunch that ChatGPT users performed more than 1 billion web searches last week through the chatbot. Sounds like a lot!

While the shopping results are starting to look at lot like Google Search results, the company is probably not sweating right now.

Last month, a Google blog post revealed that the company sees more than 5 trillion searches per year. That breaks down to about 96 billion web searches each week.

OpenAI is trying hard to find enough revenue to power the increasingly expensive AI services it offers. Search revenue (when it decides to monetize) would certainly help. Last quarter, Google made $50.7 billion from Search alone.