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| ChatGPT search | |
| Updated this week | |
| ChatGPT search is available to all ChatGPT Free, Plus, Team, Edu, Enterprise users. Free users who are logged out will also have access to ChatGPT search. | |
| 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 search sometimes partners with other search providers. When it does, ChatGPT search typically rewrites your query into one or more targeted queries that it sends those providers. For instance, if a biotech researcher asked ChatGPT, "what’s the latest on the development of drugs that target CCR8 for cancer?" ChatGPT might initially query a search partner using "CCR8 immunotherapy drug development 2025." After reviewing the initial results, ChatGPT search may send additional, more specific queries to other search providers, like “CHS-114 conference 2025.” . ChatGPT also collects general location information based on your IP address and may share that general location with third-party search providers to improve the accuracy of your results. For example, if you type into ChatGPT “What are some good restaurants near me?” and ChatGPT determines from your IP address that you are in the San Francisco area, ChatGPT may rewrite your prompt into the search query “top restaurants San Francisco.” ChatGPT does not share the IP address itself, or any of your ChatGPT account information, with third-party search providers. | |
| For more information about how third-party search providers may further process search queries, please refer to: | |
| Bing (Microsoft’s privacy policy) | |
| If you have “Memory” enabled, when ChatGPT search rewrites your prompt into a search query it may also leverage relevant information from memories to make the query better and more useful. For example, if the user has “Memory” turned on and asks ChatGPT “what are some restaurants near me that I’d like,” and has memories is that the user is vegan and lives in San Francisco, then ChatGPT may rewrite the user’s prompt to “good vegan restaurants San Francisco.” You can learn more here about Memory, including how to disable it or control individual memories. | |
| How to search in ChatGPT | |
| 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. | |
| On iOS and Android, ChatGPT search results may also output a map if the result is appropriate. | |
| 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. | |
| Searching with Voice on ChatGPT | |
| ChatGPT voice chats with search are slowly rolling out to ChatGPT users over the coming days. Please stay tuned! | |
| You can search while having a voice conversation with ChatGPT. | |
| During a voice chat, you can ask ChatGPT to search for something and ChatGPT will provide you fast, timely answers by searching the web. | |
| Please note that your searching with Voice is also subject to ChatGPT usage limits. | |
| Learn more about voice chats with 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. | |
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