The new search/Bing integration (introduced October 31st) is leading to degraded functionality. When a chat focuses on topics that trigger search, the logic of the conversation can fall apart. It’s like the calls to search bring in another speaker (who sounds like Bing) who doesn’t fully understand the conversational context and simply repeats himself/herself if a detail is questioned. Have others noticed this? We at least need a way to disable this integration!
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For me, the new search completely ignores conversation, memories, custom instructions and forces local irrelevant results from my IP (which may not even be accurate as I could be using roaming data while traveling) even when I ask general terms that would apply to everywhere (e.g. legality of data collection and processing specifics on an online app I am making that - implicitly - would target audiences from all over the world). Sometimes it would keep repeating itself with the same exact response even when I continually prompt it with added specifics.
On the other hand, the old Browse was perfect and would always get me the results I need. It actually considers the conversation, and would return me a response that suited the context. If I wanted verbatim Bing results just summarized, I would have used Bing Copilot, not the ChatGPT 4o with Browse I originally paid for.
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Thanks for the confirmation. Yes, my experience is similar.
I found a workaround from another thread which involves creating a custom GPT to bring back the old browse instead: October 31st Real Time Searching Compromises Personal Interactions - #11 by mitchell_d00
Not sure how long they’ll keep it around but it works for now 
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Thank you for telling folks about my work around 
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Thanks, @ashlee and @mitchell_d00! Alas, the solution no longer works. If anyone comes up with a new solution, I’d be interested to hear.
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