ChatGPT or Google Scholar?: Which Tool Is Trending?

ChatGPT or Google Scholar?: Which Tool Is Trending?

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-9300-7.ch004
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Abstract

In this chapter, the authors have compared two applications (ChatGPT and Google Scholar) used among the students and scholars. The researchers have collected the data from Google trends from the past 90 days to compare ChatGPT and Google Scholar. The search criteria were focused on education, from the website and YouTube. ChatGPT was launched on November 30, 2022 by San Francisco–based OpenAI. The results have found an increasing web search trend of ChatGPT from 19th December 2022 till 15th March 2023 with an average percentage of 27.71%. Google Scholar is a well-known tool among scholars, academician, and students. The study found a fluctuating result between the same timeline for web search with an average percentage of 71.71%. The study has found a surprising decreasing YouTube search trends of Google Scholar (10.45%) compared with ChatGPT (35.74%).
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Methodology

The current study will use the mix method to explore the comparison of search between ChatGPT and Google scholar using Google Trends. The sample data will be drawn from Google trends between 19th December 2022 till 15th March 2023. The keywords used to compare the results have been presented in table 1. The study involves the locations worldwide and focus on education as category.

Table 1.
Data collection
ItemsSearch
KeywordsChatGPT AND Google Scholar
Time90 days
CategoriesEducation
Location to searchWorldwide
Search categoryWeb search, YouTube Search
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Results And Discussion

The results indicate an increase in web search for ChatGPT from 19th December 2022 with 7% percentage to 55% on 15th March 2023. The results for Scholar google was fluctuating from 72% on 19th December 2022 to 99% on 15th March 2023. The average web search for ChatGPT was 27.71%, whereas, the average search for google scholar was 71,71%. Figure 1 is the visualization comparison between two applications and found and increasing trend in search of ChatGPT. However, the results were surprising on YouTube search with ChatGPT has gained more attention compared with Google scholar with an average of 35.74% and 10.45% respectively. Figure 2 represents the visualization of Google trends results between ChatGPT and Google Scholar for YouTube search.

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