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OpenAIunveiled its search engine,SearchGPT, inside its ChatGPTartificial intelligence platform last week.

It also explained why it offered a specific link in more detail than any other search engine Ive tried.

OpenAI SearchGPT interface on purple background

This may have been due to my familiarity with the ChatGPT user interface though.

I got a similar result from Perplexity but the interface is more cluttered, and it took longer.

Google offered a NASA link that had some information on moons but no table.

ChatGPT

It didnt trigger the AI Overviews.

An analogy is to that of a clean install of Windows without the bloatware.

What were the standout features?

ChatGPT

For example, it talked about our streaming coverage and offered a link to the streaming page.

It also has live data access for common things like weather, news, sports and stocks.

My assumption was wrong.

ChatGPT

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