---
title: "Switching from Google to ChatGPT search"
url: https://perrotta.dev/2024/12/switching-from-google-to-chatgpt-search/
last_updated: 2026-03-10
---


Following the footsteps of [Daniel
Miessler](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielmiessler_ive-not-used-google-to-search-since-searchgpt-activity-7258159059944538113-dxZG),
I have changed my default search engine in Chrome from Google to ChatGPT
Search[^1],
by installing their official [chrome
extension](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/chatgpt-search/ejcfepkfckglbgocfkanmcdngdijcgld).

This is effectively possible because, after
[launching](https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-search/)
it for a few months, this month they made it free for everyone.

So far the results are impressive and almost always what I am looking for.

When they are not, I can easily fall back to Google by starting my search query
in Chrome with 'g', or to DuckDuckGo with 'd'.

**Edit(2025-01-07)**:
[OpenAI is early googling late-stage Google](https://birchtree.me/blog/openai-is-early-googling-late-stage-google/). This.

[^1]: They should _really_ market it as _SearchGPT_.