With ChatGPT Search, OpenAI presents a long-awaited search function, which makes the AI chatbot an alternative to Google’s search engine. The AI search should display current search results from the web – including links to sources. However, the feature is not yet available to all users.
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Search – a search function for ChatGPT, through which the chatbot can search the web. The chatbot can thus display current responses such as sports scores, news and stock quotes with links to relevant sources, “which until now required a search engine”, says OpenAI.
ChatGPT uses web search when it matches the question asked. The web search can also be started manually by clicking on a corresponding symbol. OpenAI integrates the functionality into both the web application on chatgpt.com and the desktop and mobile applications.
The ChatGPT UI with the new web search: on the right side there are now snippets and links to sources that are displayed in the search results – so the right side looks like a list of search results Google. On the left, the chat window remains the same – with the difference that the chat history now also contains indications about the sources.
With the new search function, ChatGPT also displays snippets and links to the sources of search results on the right side – as Google also does. (Source: openai.com)
For now, only ChatGPT Plus and Team users as well as those on the ChatGPT Search waitlist have access to the new search feature. In a few weeks, OpenAI will roll out the feature to Enterprise and Edu users of ChatGPT and in the coming months, users of the free version should also have access.
Licensing agreements with publishers – and Microsoft
For this functionality, OpenAI has entered into various partnerships with media groups and news agencies, including Associated Press, Axel Springer, Financial Times, Le Monde, News Corp, Prisa (El País) and Reuters. Website operators can decide whether or not their content appears in ChatGPT Search search results, OpenAI promises.
The research model is based on a fine-tuned version of GPT-4o, which OpenAI has reportedly trained using new synthetic data generation techniques. ChatGPT Search also uses search services from third-party providers as well as content made available by partners, it is specified in the press release. Regarding data protection, OpenAI acknowledges that ChatGPT may share users’ search queries with “third-party providers like Bing.”
ChatGPT Search indeed relies on Microsoft’s search engine, at least for most queries, as noted by windowslatest.com. Several tests have reportedly shown that ChatGPT Search search results are identical to those of Microsoft Bing.
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