No, ChatGPT isn’t stealing Google’s search market share

Reporting on Google’s market share these days is like reporting on the sky (did you know it’s blue?). A report from BofA argues that Google's search market share is down ever so slightly and attributes that to ChatGPT. Google’s worldwide search market share, according to StatCounter:October 2023: 91.53%October 2022: 92.34%This is Google’s lowest global search market share in the past 12 months. But is this ChatGPT eating into Google’s search market share? For most of these eight years, ChatGPT didn’t exist, including from April to August 2018 when Google’s search market share dipped below 91%.