You can make ChatGPT Search the default search engine, replacing Google in Chrome and Edge - here's how easy this extension works.

There's a new AI-backed search engine in town. But can it stand up to Google's decades-long hold on internet searches?

Artificial intelligence pioneer OpenAI launched its own ChatGPT search engine on Thursday, positioning itself as a challenger to search titan Google and a direct competitor to the Bing search engine from its strategic partner Microsoft.

OpenAI has partnered with a number of news organizations so its search engine will be able to pull from these companies’ content for its SearchGPT.

SearchGPT was initially launched in July as a prototype, from which OpenAI planned to integrate the best features with ChatGPT later. OpenAI has collected that feedback and implemented it into its search experience, claiming it brought "the best of the SearchGPT experience" into the chatbot.

ChatGPT is officially an AI-powered web search engine. The company is enabling real-time information in conversations for paid subscribers today (along with SearchGPT waitlist users), with free, enterprise, and education users gaining access in the coming weeks.

AI powerhouse OpenAI integrates real-time web search into its chatbot. We reviewed it against Google and Perplexity.

Navigate to ChatGPT Search's announcement page and click on Download Chrome Extension to reach the official Chrome Web Store page. Click the Add to Chrome button at the top of the store page to begin installation. When the pop-up window appears, click Add extension. You'll see a confirmation message that ChatGPT Search has been added to Chrome.

OpenAI's new release is being hyped as a 'Google killer,' but our tests find that ChatGPT search has some work to do before it can top the world's dominant search engine.

ChatGPT Search is being positioned as an alternative to Google Search. It will be available across all ChatGPT platforms -- Android, iOS and desktop apps for Windows and macOS.