Google is the most used search engine in the world, far ahead of Bing, the Microsoft search engine. Now, a new search engine with artificial intelligence has just been launched that aims to compete directly. We are talking about SearchGPT, the new search engine launched by OpenAI, the developers of the well-known ChatGPT, which promises to revolutionize internet searches.
We know that the most used search engine in the world is Google, with approximately 90% market share. The company is very well positioned and offers a large number of solutions and services that perfectly complement this search engine.
Many want to steal some of its market share, like Microsoft with its Bing search engine. There are many other search engines, like Ecosia, DuckDuckGo and others, that offer certain special features. Now we have the addition of the OpenAI search engine, which focuses, as it could not be otherwise, on artificial intelligence.
SearchGPT, the AI-powered search engine that is coming for Google
Search engines traditionally display links and a piece of text, which is a summary or description of the destination page. Some add different informational or sales cards, if we search for a product. OpenAI with its SearchGPT search engine wants to revolutionize searches.
It has a big difference with conventional search engines and that is that when a query is made, it does not return certain links ordered according to the relevance of the site and concordance with the search. What SearchGPT does is find the information on the web and displays it in a summarized form, instead of simply showing links.
Currently, this new search engine is only available to a closed group of testers. There are 10,000 privileged users who have access. If you are interested, there is a waiting list to join where you can sign up without any problems at this link.
The page states that “although this is a prototype, we plan to incorporate the best features directly into ChatGPT in the future.” This leads us to believe that this will not be a standalone feature, but rather one that will be integrated into OpenAI’s current solution.
SearchGPT works in a very similar way to ChatGPT. Within it we can perform a query for information of any type. This function performs a search on relevant websites and produces a complete summary with the information collected. After providing the information, it will give us the links to the consulted sources.
Google and Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, already integrate AI capabilities into their search engines. The problem is that the reception has been rather cold, far from what was initially expected. We will see how this new OpenIA feature is received when it is launched.
It seems that SearchGPT will associate elements based on our queries. For example, we can ask it what events are going to take place this weekend in our town or when the festivities will start. If we then ask it about the temperature or the probability of rain, it will give us the data referring to the first query.
It should be noted that OpenAI has made it clear that the information collected will not be used to feed its AI models. This means that any website can be used to resolve the issue, even if those responsible do not want it to. Since the content is not supposedly used to train its AI, there should not be a problem.
