OpenAI has officially launched its search engine. ChatGPT search.
It is an artificial intelligence-powered search engine integrated into ChatGPT.
This move is OpenAI’s step into an internet search market dominated by Google.
The company tested a search engine “prototype” earlier this year among a small group of ChatGPT users.
Open AI enabled the search feature for subscribers of ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Team Thursday, promising to extend
the new feature to the free version user “over the coming months.”
The search engine was tested among a group of about 10,000 users and some publishers in July as a separate product, SearchGPT, which OpenAI said would utilize the company’s AI models to provide search results.
How It Works
ChatGPT’s new search engine summarizes information from websites and then provides short descriptions with an attribution link instead of linking directly to a website. It then allows users to ask follow-up questions or open other relevant links in a sidebar.
In one example, searching for musical festivals in Boone, North Carolina, in August resulted in:
- a list of each festival and a short description, followed by
- a link to a website for that festival, with
- a sidebar with links to other relevant results like event scheduling or ticket sales.
OpenAI had previously said publishers will be able to “manage how they appear” in search results and can opt out of having their content used to train OpenAI’s models while still appearing in searches
