Hi everyone,
I want to develop a tooltip that communicates with the user in one language (not English), but performs web searches exclusively in English. And it doesn’t work. The web search always switches to the communication language. Is there a way to instruct the system how to switch to English for web searches?
Hi @skedrov ! Is this in ChatGPT? If so, you can click on your profile (picture) in the top-right corner, select “Customize ChatGPT” and in “What traits it should have” put something like:
“No matter what language I write in, when performing web search, always search in English only and provide a response in English only!”.
I tried now in Swedish and it seems to work
Yes, this is in ChatGPT. Thank you, I’ll try and return back with results.
Hi, @platypus !
May I ask you to take a look at: ChatGPT - History. The Ancient Ages. Swedish
You will understand what I’m trying to achieve. The idea is to communicate with a student in his native language, but perform web search strongly in English to reach English-language resources. Gemini searches only in English and the problem doesn’t exist. But GPT switches to the communication language It doesn’t matter what instructions it has. I tried to implement your instruction, but result is the same. I also tried to employ 4o, o1, o3 to improve the logic and find inconsistency, but nothing works. If you wish I’ll share the prompt. It’s not too long.
I tried your GPT and for me it works as expected - I can talk to it in Swedish and it responds in Swedish, but the search is clearly in English, see below:
But in general there is no way to fully enforce search one way or another, since it’s hidden behind the scenes and uses Bing, and it will basically go purely based on Bing ranking. You can give it a list of specific websites to use for info (or exclude), and hope for the best.
Interesting. Thank you. Sometimes it uses English-language resources, sometimes switches to Swedish, sometimes doesn’t perform a Web Search at all. Despite the instructions strictly indicate to search only in English and on first level domains (org, edu, com etc.) Yes, some part of uncertainty may be on the Bing’s side.
It also looks like ChatGPT caches search results. New Web Search request doesn’t perform a real search, just requests the cache.
