OpenAI: No plans for ads in ChatGPT Search [Video]

OpenAI’s new ChatGPT search engine might be David taking on Google Search Goliath. But it already has a major leg up on its competitor: no ads.

An OpenAI spokesperson told Mashable, “We don’t have any plans for ads” with ChatGPT Search. The statement follows Thursday’s launch of the much anticipated web-browsing capability. ChatGPT Search works off of OpenAI’s GPT-4o model and uses third-party search and content from its media partners to surface real-time information.

Before the rise of ChatGPT, taking on Google Search, which has an estimated market share of 95 percent, would have been downright reckless. But since the chatbot’s launch, many users prefer ChatGPT as their search engine instead of Google. Users have shared that they like ChatGPT’s direct, to-the-point responses compared to the ad-riddled and clickbait-y search results that now plague Google.

With users already converting to ChatGPT as their unofficial search engine, OpenAI may have delivered Google the kiss of death with an …