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Excited to see how this compares to Perplexity or Gemini. I remember that ChatGPT used to be able to search the web, but last I checked it it couldn't. I wonder why they removed that feature


ChatGPT can search the web (I just checked in my account). It appears to be available for all users (not just paid): https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9237897-chatgpt-search


I definitely tried to web search with ChatGPT a few weeks ago and it couldn't. I don't think I'm making this up. Unless I suffered a TBI.


It told me it can't search the web and then proceeded to search the web


Web search is available for some but not all of their models. It is not particularly obvious from their UI which models have this feature.


About half my requests end up going to web search. But if you ask it for something specific like "find an X-ray image with an abnormality," then it refuses.


Search was not removed from ChatGPT, although it can be glitchy at times.


Also not all models support it. I think only gpt-4o and gpt-4o-mini support it, although I haven't triple checked that.


As sibling said, search was nog removed. But not all models can use the web search, maybe that is causing your perception?




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