ChatGPT Search is Here, and I Made That Happen
Certain portions of the post title may be an AI-like hallucination
SearchGPT is dead, long live ChatGPT Search. ChatGPT Search helped me recall how that phrase goes by the way. Three big things are worth noting about ChatGPT Search:
Thing 1
It seems clear that I made this happen. Just yesterday evening I wrote this:
Hopefully search query history - as at least an option - will come to SearchGPT soon / when it’s integrated into ChatGPT.
And behold - ChatGPT Search is live and search query history is a feature of it.
Thing 2
Search query history is good to see and works very well in my early interactions with ChatGPT Search, and syncs across mobile and the ChatGPT web app just as prompts to ChatGPT do. Here it’s showing my first four searches (the items in the Today section, above the cyber risk governance entries, which are ChatGPT prompt history entries):
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ChatGPT Search looks good and works well. On my first use of it, on my Android phone, I felt like the result was in front of me at almost the same moment I finished submitting my query. I have not tried to quantify this as yet, but it feels faster than Perplexity, probably its top current rival in the New School Search Engine space.
Search results are good, links are cited and so far in my brief time with ChatGPT Search the cited links check out:
Asking follow-up questions also works well so far, and it’s good to see that ChatGPT search has some useful partnerships in place to help with specific types of searches, per OpenAI’s blog post on its release:
Thing 3.5
I’m impressed enough already, so I have now changed my default search engine to ChatGPT Search. I’l share an update soon-ish on whether I end up liking or regretting this choice :)