-: Let me walk you through ChatGPT search.
This is a new addition to ChatGPT.
It did have the ability to search before,
but it's gotten a lot better
and it looks at multiple sources now.
Let me just search here for, "Who won the election?"
And it's searching the web.
And it gives us the right answer now,
because it has up-to-date information
from the searches it did.
It gives us a specific credit to the sources,
which is useful.
Here, in this case, it's all the Wall Street Journal,
and you can see here a bit more information.
Now, if you look on Citations,
it chose this one specifically.
There's also other ones as well.
So you can look at Reuters.
You can click through specifically to see this.
Now, the interesting thing that I found
is that even if you turn search off,
and you say, "Who won the election?"
It will still do a search.
So it's actually, as we speak right now,
it's not actually possible to turn this feature off.
Like it will bring this in regardless,
whenever you're asking for some up-to-date information.
But it is quite useful.
Now, if you want to turn the search off,
you could go into New Chat,
and then if you just switch to ChatGPT Classic,
you can say, "Who won the election?"
And here it tells us.
It actually refuses to answer this, which is fun.
But let's see if we get answer out of it.
But, I think, because this is a very hot topic,
that's probably why it refuses.
Interesting.
So that's how ChatGPT search works.
I would say it's useful, especially for specific situations
where you need up-to-date information.
Another good example here is,
"What are the latest trends amongst teens
in terms of streetwear fashion?"
'Cause it searches multiple articles,
it can be quite useful,
and it can even bring back images,
and then it can summarize all these different things.
So here it's looking at InStyle, College Fashion,
it's got a few different sites.
And you can click through
and see the validation here if it's any good.
The other thing I found it quite useful for
is like restaurants:
"Is there a restaurant near me that sells french fries?"
Because it has your IP address,
it will actually do a search for you.
Unfortunately, it's not very accurate
because it's just based on IP,
and I don't live in Birmingham,
but that's where my IP address is.
It is pretty good.
It gives you back a map here, a list.
So, really gunning for Google here.
But again, I would recommend you click through
to check the search results first.
Hopefully that's useful.
It's much better than the previous search,
which would only search maybe one thing at a time.
So, I've been using this more and more.