No it is not just search. Chain of thought is the generation of new context from the inputs combined with a divide and conquer strategy. The model does not really searches it just breaks the problem in smaller chunks.
CoT is literally just telling an LLM to "reason through it step by step", so that it talks itself through the solution instead of just giving the final answer. There's no searching involved in any of that.
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