Source: Search Engine Journal
OpenAI's crawler generates 24 million daily requests—a volume indicating the company is building training data pipelines and real-time knowledge sources independent of Google's indexing. This matters because it shifts information asymmetry: where Google historically determined what content "mattered" through ranking signals, OpenAI now operates its own parallel discovery layer, potentially training on fresher or differently-curated web sources. Site owners face new compliance decisions (robots.txt, crawl budgets, brand safety), while web publishers lose control over which aggregator—search engine or AI lab—sets the terms for their content's reach.