Tech Desk 
Jun 17, 2025
OpenAI has silently enhanced ChatGPT's web search-based responses, including the quality of responses and its instruction-following ability.
The San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm revealed that the web search tool can handle longer, and more complex queries.
As per OpenAI, the chatbot can now take an image of an object and find information from publicly listed websites.
Web search in ChatGPT receives an upgrade
The AI giant listed several advancements to web search that users can now access. With the latest update, web search in ChatGPT will provide more up-to-date and comprehensive information to users.
According to OpenAI, the web search tool is now better at understanding the intent behind a user query and can tailor its responses accordingly.
The latter is a result of the improved memory function, which the company recently rolled out. OpenAI has been integrating this capability in different ChatGPT features, with the most recent example being Projects. Projects in ChatGPT can now reference past projects in conversations.
Another interesting upgrade is the feature's ability to run multiple searches for a single query. The chatbot can now draw out more information by also running searches for additional topics, wherever necessary.
Notably, ChatGPT can now run web searches based on an image uploaded by the user.
