Web Search
How your AI employee searches the web, what it brings back, and how to ask for results you can check.
How Web Search Works
Ask your AI employee to look something up and it runs the search itself, reads what comes back, and reports what it found. Every result it works from carries the page title and the link, so anything it tells you can be traced back to the page it came from. Search runs from your own instance, so there is no search subscription in the path and no per-query bill.
Nothing to set up and nothing to pay for search itself. It is part of the base build — no API key to provision, no developer account to sign up for, and no third-party search bill.
Ask for the sources. Results come back with links, so you can open the original page and check a claim yourself rather than taking the summary on trust.
Search covers what is publicly reachable on the open web. Anything behind a login, a paywall, or a site that blocks automated readers will not turn up this way — if that is where the answer lives, say so rather than assuming the search simply missed it.
Searching the Web
To search the web, simply ask your AI employee to look something up. You can be general ("what's the latest news on AI regulation?") or specific ("find the SEC filing for TechCorp's Q4 2025 earnings"). The AI formulates an effective search query, retrieves results, and presents the most relevant findings in a clear summary. It includes source URLs so you can verify information directly.
Research request
Search for specific business information.
Search Capabilities
Web search returns articles, websites, and pages — whatever is publicly reachable for the query it runs. There is no separate news or academic mode to pick from; you steer it with the query itself, so asking for recent coverage, or for a particular publication or date range, works better than asking for a search type. Your AI employee can also run several searches in sequence, refining as it goes, to build a fuller picture of a topic. For finding images, Sarudo uses a dedicated image search tool (photos and animated GIFs) rather than web search — see the Image Search article for details.
What Search Costs You
There is no metered search plan behind this and no monthly query allowance to top up, so a research-heavy job — competitive analysis, market research, due diligence — is not billed to you per search. What a long research run does consume is time, and model usage on your own provider account, the same as any other multi-step task. If a topic needs dozens of searches to cover it properly, ask for it; the searching itself is not what you are paying for.