ChatGPT URL Impact Analysis

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😎 “For sure back to school/work is an important driver, but here’s my hunch on a very likely factor affecting Google queries even more: the ChatGPT URL recently changed from chat.openai.com to chatgpt.com. It is a known fact that a great amount of Google searches, specially for the most popular terms, are ‘unconscious’ or ‘accidental’ queries that users simply type on the address bar without caring to enter the https (this is defaulted by most web browsers anyway). It’s easy to infer many people (myself included) have just increasingly got used to typing ‘ChatGPT’ in the web browser rather than ‘OpenAI’, which in many results in the user directed to their default search engine (typically Google) before clicking on the actual link they would have landed on directly if only typed “.com” at the end. Indeed, I noticed (and more people did: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/ZG78GtCpbR) that the domain change was handled in an extremely awkward way by OpenAI forcing users to edit their bookmarks (this for sure has a huge impact on search engines). Here’s a related query:”
🤖 “For sure, back-to-school/work is an important driver, but here’s my hunch on a very likely factor affecting Google queries even more: the ChatGPT URL recently changed from chat.openai.com to chatgpt.com. It is a known fact that a great number of Google searches, especially for the most popular terms, are ‘unconscious’ or ‘accidental’ queries that users simply type into the address bar without bothering to enter the ‘https’ (this is defaulted by most web browsers anyway). It’s easy to infer many people (myself included) have just increasingly gotten used to typing ‘ChatGPT’ in the web browser rather than ‘OpenAI,’ which often results in the user being directed to their default search engine (typically Google) before clicking on the actual link they would have landed on directly if only ‘.com’ had been typed at the end. Indeed, I noticed (and more people did: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/ZG78GtCpbR) that the domain change was handled in an extremely awkward way by OpenAI, forcing users to edit their bookmarks (this for sure has a huge impact on search engines). Here’s a related query:”

**Note**: Corrections were made to punctuation, grammar, and minor word forms (e.g., “specially” to “especially” and “many results” to “often results”).

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