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Imagine typing a query and instead of scrolling through countless blue links and ads. You get a summarized answer right away. It’s like having a personal assistant who checks for information online and gives you an answer without the extra noise. OepnAI has released a new AI-powered engine feature called ChatGPT Search with a Chrome extension. Here’s how to set ChatGPT Search as your deffault search engine.
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Steps to Set ChatGPT as Your Default Search Engine
ChatGPT’s new Search feature pulls real-time information from the internet and present the answer directly with links to those sources. It is fast, checks a good number of sources and also provides citations making it reliable to set as a default search engine.
- Head over to the ChatGPT Search Chrome Extension page and click on the Add to Chrome button. This will add the extension to your browser in just a few seconds.
- Type your question in the Chrome address bar, and ChatGPT will take care of the rest, providing AI-generated answers instantly.
You can customize the ChatGPT results by providing Custom Instructions to ChatGPT.
And if there are times you want to use Google instead —just type !g [your query]. For example, you can type !g best pizza places near me and Google will handle that search for you.
ChatGPT Free vs Plus Users
Currently, ChatGPT Search is only available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers and users who joined the initial waitlist, which is now closed. Unfortunately, free, enterprise, and education users don’t yet have access to this latest capability.
However, the free users can also use this extension. Instead of using new ChatGPT Search feature, it relies on the older search tool, powered by GPT-4o model. This older search option has two major limitations: it checks fewer search results, so the information might not always be as comprehensive. Plus, there’s a limit on the number of searches you can do per day. When you hit that limit, ChatGPT reverts to relying on its stored knowledge rather than live internet results, which means there is very high chance of getting outdated information.
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