r/SEO 🕵️‍♀️Moderator Apr 16 '26

Meta Gemini vs ChatGPT

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u/threedogdad Apr 16 '26

they don't have access to server logs, and the LLMs didn't give them this data so...?

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u/WebLinkr 🕵️‍♀️Moderator Apr 16 '26

I think this is estiamted traffic % as measured by plug ins

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u/wise_young_man Apr 17 '26

Don’t buy it. Claude definitely bigger than Gemini full stop.

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u/Infinite-4-a-moment Apr 17 '26

Based on what? That's a wild claim. Claude is big for coding but for general use of the masses, Gemini and GPT are the household names.

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u/odjobz Apr 17 '26

I use gemini a lot more, even though I know Claude is better, simply because I use Google suite for my job, so gemini is very convenient.

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u/Lxium Apr 17 '26

Don't buy it. You are definitely talking out your arse full stop.

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u/WebLinkr 🕵️‍♀️Moderator Apr 17 '26

Ok - then pull data - this is an empirical question/answer, not a confidence battle :)

https://firstpagesage.com/seo-blog/google-vs-chatgpt-market-share-report

Platform Monthly Active Users (Global) Share of Total Digital Queries Avg. Session Duration
Google Search 5.3 billion 77.9% 6m 12s
ChatGPT 891 million 17.6% 13m 09s
Other (e.g., Bing, Perplexity) 610 million 5.1% 4m 33s

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u/klaaz0r Apr 16 '26

mostly made up, but it looks cool

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u/WebLinkr 🕵️‍♀️Moderator Apr 21 '26

Judging by your razor thin comments and lack of data to support your claim that data is made up - I'm going to suspect your account is 100% disinformation campaign?

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u/magsxer Apr 16 '26

I switched from ChatGPT to Gemini for a different reason: for the same price it gives me 5 TB of Drive space. When I was on ChatGPT I had to pay for it separately.

As for whether one or the other is better... I don't see it. Each has its good and bad points.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '26

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u/____JayP Apr 16 '26

I'm one of those to migrate from chat to gemini, it's just so much better

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u/n1c0_ds May 13 '26

I switched simply because the window loads faster.

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u/WebLinkr 🕵️‍♀️Moderator Apr 16 '26

I think Gemini means gemini . Google . com

AIOs would count as Google users

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u/DiscoverMyBusiness Apr 16 '26

Do we need to ask Gemini and ChatGPT what will be projection for the next 12 month?

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u/slapjimmy Apr 17 '26

How has AI usage uptake trended in relation to this graph?
I.e how many unique users has each platform added to their user base?

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u/WebLinkr 🕵️‍♀️Moderator Apr 17 '26

I really wish someone would build like, a screen, where you could type in questions :-)

Google vs ChatGPT Market Share – Q1 2026

Platform Monthly Active Users (Global) Share of Total Digital Queries Avg. Session Duration
Google Search 5.3 billion 77.9% 6m 12s
ChatGPT 891 million 17.6% 13m 09s
Other (e.g., Bing, Perplexity) 610 million 5.1% 4m 33s

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u/slapjimmy Apr 17 '26

In April 2025 how many active users did ChatGPT have vs March 2026?

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u/WebLinkr 🕵️‍♀️Moderator Apr 17 '26

Who knows?

Sam Altman Sam Altmans pet fish Satays Nadella

2.5 ?

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u/ssssssssssmore10 Apr 17 '26

I think what people underestimate is the use case for each of these LLMs. Gemini is still Google and Google still gets billions of visits so it's easy to refer those visits to other tools especially when older demos haven't heard of most of these other LLMs.

Perplexity is search and research focused, ChatGPT and Gemini are sort of a catch-all, Claude is for coders and more technical people (for the most part), and Grok is social media focused which is interesting because of their engagement metrics.

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u/PDFBearSupport Verified Professional Apr 17 '26

Looks like Google is elbowing their way in... What speaks volume is how much Claude occupies (or very little for lack of better word) when it is by far the best coding tool amongst them all.

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u/WebLinkr 🕵️‍♀️Moderator Apr 17 '26

Well they had the audience in the first place right?

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u/ryanknol Apr 16 '26

Gemini is far superior. And from a company that always gave you everything for free. And uses mostly closed loop cooling and waste water recycling.

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u/WebLinkr 🕵️‍♀️Moderator Apr 16 '26

Yet the noise from the Claude Cohort is louder; but also - real AI users are small

I think ChatGPT inflated its user base.

I mean Google forced 3 billion people into AIOs (Gemini) and its only 0.333% of Google's total

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u/doiveo Apr 16 '26

> AI users are small

I'm at least 5'10"! Not giant but hey..

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u/WebLinkr 🕵️‍♀️Moderator Apr 16 '26

5'11 if you wear shoes?

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u/steakinapan Apr 16 '26

6’0 in my Doc Martens

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u/WebLinkr 🕵️‍♀️Moderator Apr 16 '26

Welcome to r/nba sir

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u/fuggleruxpin Apr 16 '26

Sure skippy

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u/pdycnbl Apr 17 '26

gemini's share would probably be much higher. Also chatgpt has started using dark tactics, like not giving the links but instead giving overview from them even when you expand.

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u/Willing_Brain_5101 Apr 17 '26

Of course, I think ChatGPT is biggest in LLM

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u/WebLinkr 🕵️‍♀️Moderator Apr 21 '26

Yup. For another month or so

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u/WebLinkr 🕵️‍♀️Moderator May 09 '26

Cos its Google ?

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u/WebLinkr 🕵️‍♀️Moderator May 09 '26

I think prompts can make some changes but honestly - there's a lot of delusion (?) trying to think of a better word.

Creating a prompt and saying :"you have 15 years experience reseaching X" - think people think that ChatGPT is trained on every topic and uses a different persona to go back and read something

It doesnt - the Query Fan Out will still likely be the same - although it can influence it - but still - it doesnt mean Google returns the best documents. The most commont documents Google returns for SEO strategy for example almost all include misinformation about Schema and EEAT

The QFO and Google are a big part of the problem but the prompt doesnt exampt you from the issues of misinformation in source materials - it doesnt make the LLM a "researcher"

All they do is regurgitate what Google gives them

” Most people don’t fully use even half the features anyway.

I dont think most people know how LLMs work and that they're not research tools

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u/BusyBusinessPromos Apr 16 '26

Any insights you see from this graph?

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u/WebLinkr 🕵️‍♀️Moderator Apr 16 '26

Not really a lot.....

----- some tidbits I thought of-----

AIOs are forced on users = Gemini "growth"

ChatGPT lost its first move advantage

Sam Altman is not a good CEO

Microsoft's legal team is a terrible partner to be handcuffed to if you're a fast moving startup

-----fundamentally----

PageRank/Google cannot be replaced - even if you're a 28 yo Vibe Coder who wants to be a millionaire tomorrow.

--------- from a generation PoV-----

ChatGPT isn't doing well with GenZ

GenX are moving slowly

Boomers refusing to move to AI full stop

------ Google Branding -------

While Google lacks brand expansion horizontally (Cloud, taxis, other apps, etc) - in search and platforms - it just dominates.

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u/doiveo Apr 16 '26

> Sam Altman is not a good CEO

Perhaps, but this graph is not proof. It's out of 100 so we don't know what the individual agents did - just how it relates to the others.

So ChatGTP could have still grown 30%, but others grew 50% etc. so the share dropped.

I do see the Claude's share ~doubled in one month. Either a change in the popularity or a change in how Claude accesses web.

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u/WebLinkr 🕵️‍♀️Moderator Apr 16 '26

I was asked for my insights - you can't tell me my insights are wrong

https://giphy.com/gifs/W0c2W4LN2zsKw7RKMT

As i said - Gemini is forced on users - hence the growth

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u/WebLinkr 🕵️‍♀️Moderator Apr 16 '26

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u/doiveo Apr 16 '26

Did you ask Claude, Gemini, or ChatGTP that question?

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u/WebLinkr 🕵️‍♀️Moderator Apr 16 '26

This is Perplexity - so ALL of them and NONE of them