Default Search String is Dead? Long Live SearchGPT!

ChatGPT Feature requests
1

I have used:

https://chatgpt.com/search?q=%s&hints=search

For a browser search string since SearchGPT was moved to Chatgpt. That made it easy to keep all my devices at home and work as a default.

SearchGPT has been my primary search engine since it launched (replacing a decade+ of Bing usage)

That is 404 today.

Is there another way to query from the browser without specifying the model?

This appears to still work:

https://chatgpt.com/?q=%s&hints=search&model=gpt-4o

But I really don’t want to specify the model (This changes this way too much for my machines to stay in sync). Isn’t there a default?

fyi… Been covering the awesome SearchGPT saga here… www.searchengineworld.com/category/opeanai/searchgpt-opeanai

2

It was prototype.

https://openai.com/index/searchgpt-prototype/

After feedbacks from the SearchGPT prototype, OpenAI brought the SearchGPT experience into ChatGPT.

https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-search/

polepole-image
polepole-image1284×568 97.2 KB

4

YA, we know that. You should also know that pretty much anyone doing a “search” on ChatGPT calls it SearchGPT (for lack of a real term). I get it - they want to be “ChatGPT” and not a “search engines” or an “os”. Makes long term sense.

this url worked yesterday:
https://chatgpt.com/search?q=%s&hints=search

Where %s is your query.
This works, but you have to specify the model:
https://chatgpt.com/?q=%s&hints=search&model=gpt-4o

In other words, we have to:

  • rebuild code that has baked-in urls.
  • redo my desktop, work machine, laptop, phone, and tablet. (each has a few browsers set default with the string). Do I change them or just go back to Bing where the same string has worked since 2009?
  • redo website were we link to ChatGPT searches.

Here’s the deal:
A guy once hired a marketer to market for him. First thing the dude told him was that he had to end producing his material on VCR tapes (circa 2010). The guys said, 70% of his requests were for tapes. Turns out the dude sold medical equipment for seniors - and who had vcr’s running in 2010? Seniors did.
The bottom line, is it is not your job to tell people how to use your product, it your mission to make it available for as many use cases as possible.