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ChatGPT Search is officially here to challenge Google’s throne

Umito November 1, 2024

After being announced earlier this year as “SearchGPT,” OpenAI today officially launched ChatGPT Search, a new AI-powered search engine.

Available starting today, ChatGPT Search provides answers to your search queries with links to web sources, images and more, all in natural language in both directions.

OpenAI explain:

ChatGPT can now search the web in a much better way than before. You can get quick and timely answers with links to relevant web sources, for which you previously would have had to go to a search engine. This combines the benefits of a natural language interface with the value of up-to-date sports scores, news, stock quotes, and much more.

When you search, ChatGPT will display a list of citations on the right side of the user interface, along with web links directly indicating where the information came from.

ChatGPT Search will first be available to users who have signed up to the “SearchGPT” waitlist starting today, with Plus and Team users also gaining access today. The feature will expand to Enterprise and Edu subscribers in the “coming weeks,” with broader access to all free users arriving “over the coming months.” The feature will be available through ChatGPT on the web, as well as mobile and desktop apps.

Besides general answers and web links, ChatGPT will also be able to display weather (powered by AccuWeather), stocks, sports scores, news and maps. The news content, according to ChatGPT, comes after the company “engaged extensively with the news industry and listened carefully to feedback.”