Landwehr & Ray: OpenAI & Grok use Google Search, Claude & Perplexity use Brave

Key Takeaways:

• Landwehr analyzed AI Search responses for pnewind(.)com - a former wind energy company website that has been misused by Casino Affiliates using Google cloaking and access blocking

• His findings suggest:

  • OpenAI is scraping Google

  • Grok is somehow using Google

  • Claude is using Brave Search

  • Perplexity might use Brave Search (but states that it uses its own index)

• Konitzny points out that Grok is using Brave for image search - based on the code run in Chrome.

• Ray confirms based on her experience regarding the indexing speed of OpenAI and Grok

• A test from Spann with a page that was only indexable and findable by Google showed: Grok when pushed seemed to be able to access Google/serpApi but lies about it

Sources:

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/landwehr_do-openai-and-grok-scrape-google-search-results-activity-7422974621047513088-zvJo

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lily-ray-44755615_do-openai-and-grok-scrape-google-search-results-activity-7423047043943784448-g9KW/

• https://chris-spann.co.uk/provide-a-detailed-summary