[Brusco_RF]

Excited to see how this compares to Perplexity or Gemini. I remember that ChatGPT used to be able to search the web, but last I checked it it couldn't. I wonder why they removed that feature

[newfocogi]

ChatGPT can search the web (I just checked in my account). It appears to be available for all users (not just paid): https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9237897-chatgpt-search

[Brusco_RF]

I definitely tried to web search with ChatGPT a few weeks ago and it couldn't. I don't think I'm making this up. Unless I suffered a TBI.

[callamdelaney]

It told me it can't search the web and then proceeded to search the web

[simonw]

Web search is available for some but not all of their models. It is not particularly obvious from their UI which models have this feature.

[cactusplant7374]

About half my requests end up going to web search. But if you ask it for something specific like "find an X-ray image with an abnormality," then it refuses.

[85392_school]

Search was not removed from ChatGPT, although it can be glitchy at times.

[BryantD]

Also not all models support it. I think only gpt-4o and gpt-4o-mini support it, although I haven't triple checked that.

[beng-nl]

As sibling said, search was nog removed. But not all models can use the web search, maybe that is causing your perception?