How to make ChatGPT your default search engine


Thanks to a simple extension, ChatGPT can become your default search engine on Chrome. — OpenAI

With its new AI-powered web search functionality, ChatGPT is taking on Google head-on. Paying subscribers can now take advantage of this feature directly in their browsers by making ChatGPT their default search engine via an extension available for Chrome.

OpenAI has launched its ChatGPT search tool, currently available only to Premium subscribers (currently ChatGPT Plus, and soon Edu and Enterprise). However, it should be available to all users in the coming months. The idea is to launch a web search via ChatGPT, in natural language. You then get an answer that is supposed to be reliable and, above all, fully sourced. This can be anything from the latest news to sports results or weather forecasts.

For those who already have access to this feature, the publisher offers a web browser extension to make ChatGPT your default search engine. For the moment, it's only available for Google's Chrome browser.

OpenAI's ChatGPT Search extension for Chrome gives you direct access to ChatGPT as your default search engine. The idea is to enter your search queries directly in your browser's address bar to obtain results presented via ChatGPT's interface, with the sources specified in the answer. Note that it is even possible to redirect a query to Google search by typing "!g [your query]" directly in the browser's URL bar.

Of course, you can always return to Google as your default search engine by deactivating the extension. Note that there are similar extensions for Firefox, but that these are not official and are therefore not recommended. – AFP Relaxnews

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