The ChatGPT search is now live – and this could be the Google replacement you’ve been looking for

We’ve been hearing rumors about a ChatGPT search engine for a while, but now it’s finally live. Instead of being a brand new website called ‘SearchGPT’ as many expected, it is simply an upgrade of the existing ChatGPT website and all ChatGPT apps for Windows, Mac and smartphones.

When you talk to ChatGPT, it will now ask you if it should search the web, if it thinks this would get you better results, but you can also manually start a web search at any time. As you’d expect, ChatGPT Search is a feature available immediately to ChatGPT Plus subscribers, and all ChatGPT Plus and Team users will get it today. But all SearchGPT waitlist users will also get access today. Enterprise and Edu users of ChatGPT will have access in the coming weeks.

A new quotes bar opens on the right side of the window when you click a source link. (Image credit: OpenAI)

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