> I've consistently found Gemini to be better than ChatGPT [ because ] Google has crawled the internet so they have more data to work with.

This commonly expressed non-sequitur needs to die.

First of all, all of the big AI labs have crawled the internet. That's not a special advantage to Google.

Second, that's not even how modern LLMs are trained. That stopped with GPT-4. Now a lot more attention is paid to the quality of the training data. Intuitively, this makes sense. If you train the model on a lot of garbage examples, it will generate output of similar quality.

So, no, Google's crawling prowess has little to do with how good Gemini can be.