Today ChatGPT started rolling out an AI search engine feature to all its users. ChatGPT’s search-the-web feature was first rolled out for paid subscribers in October 2024. This feature will be available for all paid and free users. You should have an account on ChatGPT and be logged in to access the AI search engine feature.
This update comes from the ’12 days of Shipmas’ series. The ChatGPT AI has upgraded the built-in search engine with this new feature. The AI search engine feature was first introduced in July, called SearchGPT. A small group was using and testing it. After that, the feature was released to the paid subscribers of ChatGPT in November. But today, the AI startup expanded the feature to the users on the free tier of the web and app platform.
It is available on both platforms – the mobile app and the web. It comes with an improved version instead of traditional search engines. The main noticeable improvement on mobile. ChatGPT looks more like a traditional search engine but with more interesting results. It displays all the necessary information in a short text, images, videos, links, social profiles, and other information. But it does not show so many web links and results pages.
You can access it by clicking on the “search the web” icon next to the “attach file and view tool” icon. Clicking the icon activates the web search mode. When you use ChatGPT AI search engine features and search for a particular location or thing, like restaurants or places of attraction, the ChatGPT search engine will show a list of results with relevant images, information, ratings, web links, and hours. Mostly search engines show these things for informational, transactional, and navigational queries. User queries will display a short heading and description with a thumbnail, including a link to the source websites and blogs.
As it is an AI search engine, so every query answer may not be 100% accurate and correct. This feature aims to make ChatGPT search faster and provide information in short form. Moreover, ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode is only available to paid users, where it can give up-to-date information automatically from the web when using.
So you should try this ChatGPT search engine feature now on your computer and mobile device. It provides short answers to the queries that are readable quickly. So let’s see if the new AI search engine feature replaces Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other search engines.
