
This was intended to be an article about why you should try OpenAI's search instead of Google. However, my research took me down a different track when ChatGPT point-blank refused to acknowledge that the iPhone 16 had been released.
So, was the best-selling phone of 2025 (so far) a figment of my imagination? Or had something gone awry in my ChatGPT knowledge journey? More on that below, but first: why is search so important anyway?