OpenAI takes another swing at Google Search, brings shopping to ChatGPT
OpenAI on Monday announced that its users can now directly shop via the ChatGPT app. This is a feature added to the ChatGPT Search mode, which will allow users to search for anything on the web via ChatGPT, and it will show relevant options across the web – just like how you would shop using Google Search. 'We're excited to announce we've launched several improvements to ChatGPT search, and today we're starting to roll out a better shopping experience,' OpenAI wrote in a post on X. The company says it wants to make 'shopping simpler and faster to find, compare, and buy products in ChatGPT'. The feature will be available in ChatGPT's default 4-o model.advertisementThe AI company has also announced that the ChatGPT Search feature is currently its most popular and the fastest growing feature. OpenAI says it has seen more than 1 billion searches using ChatGPT Search mode in just the past week. 'Search has become one of our most popular & fastest growing features, with over 1 billion web searches just in the past week,' says OpenAI.The company says, with the update, ChatGPT will show 'improved product result, visual product details, pricing, and reviews, direct links to buy'. Also, the company says none of these listings that it will show in results will be ads. 'Product results are chosen independently and are not ads.'
OpenAI says the updated shopping feature is now gradually rolling out to Plus, Pro, Free, and even logged-out users across all regions where ChatGPT is available. The rollout is expected to be completed over the next few days.
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At the time of writing this story, we also tested the shopping feature, and it appears OpenAI is still ironing out a few issues. When we used it – on a ChatGPT free account – it did display a few options; however, not all the attached links were functional or accurate. For instance, a recommendation for Petsy included a link to a news publication instead. One of the suggested websites was even out of service. That said, the tool did provide some accurate and working links—for example, to Amazon India, Poochmate, and Heads Up For Tails. We also haven't seen any visual product details yet. That is probably because the updates have not reached our account yet. If you open your ChatGPT and face a similar experience, then wait for a few days and then try again. Along with the shopping feature, OpenAI has also updated Search in WhatsApp. OpenAI says its users can now send a WhatsApp message to 1-800-ChatGPT (+1-800-242-8478) to get up-to-date answers and live sports scores. ChatGPT has also improved citations, so that it can now provide multiple citations within a single response, helping you explore or verify information from a wider range of sources. There is also a new 'highlight' interface which is aimed to make it easier to see exactly which parts of the answer each citation supports.
The trending and autocomplete searches have also been added to ChatGPT. 'You can search faster with trending searches and autocomplete suggestions,' OpenAI says. We tried these out and both the updates worked for us. OpenAI's move to roll out shopping in ChatGPT Search comes just days after the AI company expressed interest in buying Google's Chrome browser, should the US Department of Justice force its sale. Even before the trial, OpenAI had been challenging Google Search's dominance, with the launch of ChatGPT Search marking the first step in that effort.
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