ChatGPT now offers web search on free accounts. Click the globe icon to enable search mode and get real-time answers with internet sources. Kyle Balmer shows how and asks if this finally challenges Google's dominance.
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There's been a massive update to ChatGPT if you are a free user. So now ChatGPT's search functionality is available for free users, not just paid. This is the eighth gift that OpenAI have dropped in their 12 days of shipmas and I'm going to go through the details. First up, how to access it. When you open ChatGPT, you'll now have this little symbol of a globe. If you tap that, that's going to put it into search mode. Now, when you put In a query, ChatGPT is going to refer to the Internet, not just its own internal training. This allows ChatGPT to give you pretty much real time information. So for example, this is from yesterday, December16, talking about the ban of TikTok. Previously, ChatGPT would only be able to give me information up to its cutoff date of knowledge. So this now makes ChatGPT much more of a competitor to Google. Now that this is rolled out across all of its free users. If you are a free user, can you tell me whether you've got it or not? There might be a delayed rollout. And what do you think? Is this a Google killer? Is Google the ask Jeeves of 2024 now.