ChatGPT can now search the web in a much better way than before. You can get fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources, without needing to visit a separate search engine.

To provide relevant responses for users in Enterprise and Edu workspaces, ChatGPT searches based on your prompts and may share disassociated search queries with our third-party search provider, Bing. This means that the search queries we send to Bing will be disassociated from a user’s account—for instance, these search queries will not be accompanied by user or account IDs, device IDs, or assigned session IDs. Currently, the only third-party search provider we use for Enterprise and Edu workspaces is Bing, and we will not add other search providers unless we provide notice to you of this change.

ChatGPT also collects general location information based on your IP address and may share it with Bing to improve the accuracy of your results.

Web search allows ChatGPT and GPTs to answer questions on recent topics. When enabled, it may send search queries and general location information to Ping, but this data is not linked or association with user accounts.

ChatGPT workspace admins and owners can enable and disable access to ChatGPT search for their workspace and GPTs in the Admin settings page. To access this setting, select your profile icon on chatgpt.com and select Manage workspace. In the GPTs page, scroll down to Web Search and click on the toggle to enable or disable this option for your workspace and GPTs.

ChatGPT will choose to search the web based on what you ask, or you can manually choose to search by clicking the web search icon and entering your search query. If you ask a question in a more natural, conversational way, ChatGPT can choose to respond with information from the web. You can go deeper with follow-up questions, and ChatGPT will consider the full context of your chat to get a better answer for you.

Please note that ChatGPT will automatically search the web if your prompt or question might benefit from information on the web.

ChatGPT search can also be accessed via shortcut - simply type “/” and select Search from the pop-up menu.

You can also regenerate any GPT-4o response to Search the web, enabling ChatGPT to enrich its initial response with additional content from the web.

ChatGPT responses that use search will contain inline citations. If you are interested in exploring these citations further, you can hover over the citation to learn more, and click on it to see the source. This hover feature works on desktop web.

You can also find all the cited sources, as well as other relevant links, by clicking on the Sources button at the end of the response.

Occasionally, search results will also return images at the top of the response. To see the image source, click on the image to see the citation and link to the source.

Please note that search queries in ChatGPT are subject to your ChatGPT plan’s 4o usage limit. Learn more about GPT 4o usage limits on ChatGPT.

You can set search on ChatGPT as your Chrome browser’s default search by downloading and installing our Chrome Extension. Note that this browser default search will default you into ChatGPT search only if you have already been given access to it.

Once ChatGPT has been set as your default search engine, you can search directly via your browser URL bar. This will automatically start a conversation in ChatGPT that contains your search query and ChatGPT search’s response.

If you want to redirect a query to Google search, type "!g [your query]" (e.g. !g foobar) directly in your browser URL bar with your query.