OpenAI starts to roll out ChatGPT search engine for all users
OpenAI has released its popular ChatGPT search engine, rolling out the service globally to free users starting Monday as part of its “12-days of OpenAI” holiday product launch.
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OpenAI has released its popular ChatGPT search engine, rolling out the service globally to free users starting Monday as part of its “12-days of OpenAI” holiday product launch.
On its 8th day of consecutive blog posts, the ChatGPT-maker announced the news in a short informational video posted on its website, as it has every day since the AI product promotion began a week ago.
The chatbot’s search function “is now available to all logged-in users in regions where ChatGPT is available," OpenAI said.
Calling it a “faster” and “better way” to search the web, statistics show that ChatGPT search has become the preferred way to search over Google’s traditional engine.
According to its specs, ChatGPT can either search the web based on what a user asks, or the user can manually choose to search by clicking the web search icon.
A Bloomberg Intelligence (BI) survey from May 2023 showed that roughly 60% of respondents, between the ages of 16 and 34, believe ChatGPT results are better than Google search, according to a report by ChannelIX.
🌐ChatGPT search 🌐is starting to roll out to all Free users today.
undefined OpenAI (@OpenAI) December 16, 2024
Search the web in a faster, better way—available globally on https://t.co/nYW5KO1aIg and our mobile and desktop apps for all logged-in users. pic.twitter.com/yf6GJGAm8b
“ChatGPT has been trained on a diverse range of texts, it is able to provide more comprehensive and in-depth answers, including background information and context, wrote Dr. Zachary Cohen in an article titled “Why ChatGPT is the Search Engine of the Future” published by The Core Collaborative.
Cohen, a Middle School Director from Kentucky said “traditional search engines, such as Google, are best suited for quick and specific searches, but may not always provide a complete answer to a question.”
This December, the latest numbers by Explore Topics show that ChatGPT gets approximately 3.66 billion visits monthly, or approximately 100 million users per week.
