CHATGPT USES GOOGLE SERP SNIPPETS FOR ITS ANSWERS

Summary from the TLDR Marketing newsletter

A test confirmed that ChatGPT relies on Google Search result snippets for its answers. A newly published webpage, not submitted to search engines, couldn't be located by ChatGPT even with web search enabled. Gemini, in contrast, fetched the live content directly. Once the page was indexed in Google but not yet visible in search results, ChatGPT still failed to access it. Only after the page appeared in Google SERPs did ChatGPT provide a partial response, clearly drawn from the Google snippet rather than the actual page. This shows ChatGPT's dependence on Google's indexed summaries, not direct page access.