Schneider: ChatGPT and Perplexity rely on Google's index instead of crawling
Cody Schneider · AI Search is PRINTING (ChatGPT, GEO & Perplexity) · Sep 12, 2025 · at 18:28
Cody Schneider describes the architectural dependency of AI search engines like Perplexity and ChatGPT on Google's index.
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“ChatGPT and OpenAI and Perplexity, like, they're all built on the back of this, like, search engine Google, right? Google has spent the last, whatever, 30 years or 25 years basically indexing the entire, like, internet. Imagine, like, Perplexity and ChatGPT, why would they go and index the entire web when they have this thing that they can lean on top of?”
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