ChatGPT search is available to all ChatGPT Plus, Team, Edu, Enterprise, and SearchGPT waitlist users. It will roll out to all Free users over the coming months.
ChatGPT search can be accessed at chatgpt.com and in our desktop and mobile apps.
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.
What information is shared when I search?
To provide relevant responses to your questions, ChatGPT searches based on your prompts and may share disassociated search queries with third-party search providers such as Bing. For more information, see our Privacy Policy and Microsoft’s privacy policy. ChatGPT also collects general location information based on your IP address and may share it with third-party search providers to improve the accuracy of your results. These policies also apply to anyone accessing ChatGPT search via the ChatGPT search Chrome Extension.
How to search
To begin your search, go to chatgpt.com and click on the web search icon in the text box and enter your search query.
ChatGPT will automatically search the web if your 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.
Setting ChatGPT as your browser’s default search
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.