OpenAI has partially used Google search results scraped by SerpApi to provide ChatGPT responses on current events such as news and sports. SerpApi listed OpenAI as a customer on its website as recently as May and later removed the reference. Perplexity also used SerpApi and became a customer. Ahrefs conducted a study finding that 83.39% of ChatGPT's chosen results do not appear in Google's search results for the same fan-out queries. Examples still exist where ChatGPT outputs match Google's search results, and the SEO community shared multiple overlap findings.
Earlier we reported that ChatGPT from OpenAI seems to be using parts of Google search results for its answers (kudos to the SEO community for spotting it first). Well, according to The Information, OpenAI has been partially using Google search results scraped by a startup called SerpApi for ChatGPT responses on current events like news and sports. The article says, "OpenAI is getting the data from SerpApi, an eight-year-old web-scraping firm,"
It is not just ChatGPT, but also Perplexity is using this method as well. Well there you have it... It's SerpApi. Note, Perplexity is also a customer of theirs -> Sources: OpenAI has been partially using Google search results scraped by a startup called SerpApi for ChatGPT responses on current events like news and sports "OpenAI is getting the data... pic.twitter.com/XGMXRUBRZC- Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) August 22, 2025
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