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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/0387022df3095d87 https://verfassungsblog.de/searching-for-answers/ Searching for Answers - Why the EU Commission Should Designate Chatbots as Search Engines under the DSA Schaal, Jacob Lenner, Maximilian Akinyemi, Tunmise eng 2026-02-20 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Digital Services Act EU VLOSE chatgpt search engine EU Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 In October 2025, following OpenAI’s disclosure that ChatGPT’s search feature had reached an average of 120.4 million monthly users in the EU, a Commission spokesperson confirmed that regulators are currently assessing whether ChatGPT can be designated as a Very Large Online Search Engine. The legal question is whether a service that synthesises answers rather than returning indexed links falls under Digital Services Act as an “online search engine”. The Commission should answer yes. A functional interpretation is legally mandated, economically justified, and urgently necessary.