A search tool that replies with a written answer instead of a list of links.
ChatGPT search, Perplexity, Claude with web search, Microsoft Copilot, DuckDuckGo's DuckAssist and Google's AI Overviews are all answer engines. Most show the pages they used as links, called citations.
Each one reads the web with its own crawler or builds on a search index, so what it can say about you depends on what it could read.