nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/0387022df3095d87 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260220s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/0387022df3095d87 doi eng 342 23 Schaal, Jacob Author aut Searching for Answers - Why the EU Commission Should Designate Chatbots as Search Engines under the DSA Schaal, Jacob Verfassungsblog 2026-02-20 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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. CC BY-SA 4.0 Digital Services Act EU VLOSE chatgpt search engine (DE-588)10290611-7 gnd EU Lenner, Maximilian Author aut Akinyemi, Tunmise Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/searching-for-answers/ raw object