The ChatGPT search Chrome extension is the best way to use it: here’s how to find and install it
- There is a Google Chrome extension for ChatGPT search that makes using it so much better
- It’s easy to install and here we’ll show you how
- Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI, calls it “really good”
ChatGPT Search, a brand new search engine embedded in the popular ChatGPT chatbot, is already changing the way people search the web, but you can make it even easier to use by using the Chrome extension.
ChatGPT search is fast, accurate and there are no ads. Unlike Google, it treats search more like a conversation, so you can ask it to search for something and then refine your search with follow-up prompts. ChatGPT search keeps the original context of your search going. Lance Ulanoff, editor-in-chief here at TechRadar, was so impressed with the ChatGPT search that he said, “I may never Google again.”
Of course, everything in life has a downside, and with ChatGPT Search there’s currently no way to access it unless you were on the original waitlist, or you pay for ChatGPT Plus, which costs $20 (about £16/ AU$30) a month. If you were on the original waitlist for it, you’ll get it now, even on the free tier.
The only other negative is that unless you use the app, you have to launch ChatGPT in your web browser to get to the search option. It can be accessed by clicking the search icon, which functions like a toggle switch, in the prompt bar. If this is set to ‘on’, use the ChatGPT search.
However, there is a way around having to load ChatGPT’s website before searching in Chrome, and that is by using the Google Chrome extension, which means you can search with ChatGPT search by searching directly in your browser’s address bar to type.
The Google extension is indeed a much better way to use ChatGPT searches, but the problem with Google extensions is that they are very difficult to find, so here is the link directly to it.
Install the extension
Go to the ChatGPT search extension pageand then click the blue ‘Add to Chrome’ button and confirm the installation when prompted. That’s all there is to do. Now when you start typing in the address bar, you’ll be searching with ChatGPT, not Google.
You can enable and disable the ChatGPT search extension by going to the Window menu in Chrome and selecting Extensions. Here you will see an on/off switch for the extension.
If you need any more convincing to install the Google Chrome extension, listen to Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.He recently posted on X that the Chrome extension is the best way to use ChatGPT search.
“Hey, I’m really sorry to keep hyping our own product, but you should really buy ChatGPT plus and install the Chrome extension for search,” Altman wrote. “I’m cheerfully the first to admit when we ship something that’s not so good, but this time it’s… really good.”
If the company’s CEO suggests this as the best way to use their product, then that’s a pretty strong recommendation.
