Look out, Google. Search ChatGPT here

Connecting ChatGPT to the Internet Simply made more direct by enabling faster and more timely web searches by providing links to web sources, OpenAI said in a blog post on Thursday.

People can use natural language to query ChatGPT and receive relevant information as well as relevant links. ChatGPT now also has a manual search button. Clicking the Sources button on the web or mobile device opens a list of citations on the right side of the site. Search is currently only available to ChatGPT Plus, Team and SearchGPT users. Enterprise and EDU users will have access in the next few weeks. OpenAI says ChatGPT Search will make a free version of its chatbot available to users in the coming months.

OpenAI has partnered with several news organizations to license their reporting to help populate ChatGPT’s results. He also highlighted that previously users had to go to an external search engine to get relevant links, which is no longer necessary.

“ChatGPT Search promises to better highlight and attribute information from trusted news sources, benefiting audiences while expanding the reach of publishers like us who produce premium journalism,” said Pam Wasserstein, president of Vox Media, in a blog post.

News partners include Associated Press, Axel Springer, Condé Nast, Dotdash Meredith, Financial Times, GEDI, Hearst, Le Monde, News Corp, Prisa (El País), Reuters, The Atlantic, Time and Vox Media. It’s up to other news publishers whether they want to have OpenAI robots crawl their sites for information. Not surprisingly, The New York Times is not listed as much as it is. sue OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement.

OpenAI referred to its blog post when asked for further comment.

When ChatGPT launched in late 2022, it immediately gained widespread popularity and gave people an alternative to Google search. Since then, the situation in online search has changed dramatically: Google and Microsoft will soon offer their own search engines based on artificial intelligence and chatbots. For example, Google AI reviews sit on top of Google search and answer people’s questions with AI-generated answers. Other players such as Confusionrelied on online search using artificial intelligence from the very beginning. The additional competition caused Google’s search market share to fall worldwide. from 90% to 87%.

With the latest ChatGPT update, almost all major AI chatbots are aware of the need to have a reliable internet connection.

OpenAI says ChatGPT allows people to interact with information more naturally and helps users find publishers and websites.

“As AI changes the media landscape, Axel Springer’s partnership with OpenAI opens up enormous opportunities for innovative advances,” said Matias Sanchez, senior vice president of global strategic partnerships at Axel Springer SE, in a blog post. “Together we are developing new business models that ensure journalism remains credible and profitable.”