GPTGO vs Semantic Scholar

GPTGO is a free search tool that combines a traditional search engine with ChatGPT-style AI answers on one page. You type a question, see regular web search results and, alongside them, an AI-generated response that summarises or explains the topic.

The idea is to save time: instead of opening many tabs or switching between a search engine and a chatbot, you get both views at once and can follow up with the AI. The site is available in many languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Arabic and Vietnamese, and needs no account to start.

Good fit if you: want quick, free AI explanations next to normal search results without signing up.
Less ideal if you: need answers with …

Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered search engine for scientific literature, built by the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2). It indexes hundreds of millions of academic papers across science and medicine and uses AI to help researchers find and understand the most relevant work faster.

Key features include TLDR summaries (one-sentence AI summaries of papers), citation graphs that show which papers influenced a result, research feeds that recommend new papers based on your library, and the Semantic Reader, which adds inline citation cards and explanations while you read a PDF. Developers can also use the free Semantic Scholar API.

Good fit if you: are a student, researcher or journalist who n…