Are AI Chatbots replacing Google?
A 2-year study (Apr 2023–Mar 2025) looked at traffic on:
🔹 Top 10 search engines
🔹 Top 10 AI chatbots
Goal? To see if people are using chatbots more than search engines.
📉 Search engine traffic dropped only 0.51% YoY
📈 Chatbots grew 80.92% YoY but still far behind.
👉 ChatGPT gets 26X fewer visits than Google.
AI chatbots = just 2.96% of search traffic.
Data Source: SEMrush