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Advanced Web Search

What can Advanced Web Search do?

Advanced Web Search gives you powerful research capabilities with fine-grained control over how searches are performed. Unlike Standard Web Search, it can scrape full web pages, analyze content using AI, and provide in-depth summaries.

Best for:

  • In-depth research projects
  • Analyzing content from multiple sources
  • Finding detailed information within web pages
  • Research that requires understanding full context, not just snippets

Key differences from Standard:

  • Scrapes complete web pages (optional)
  • Uses AI to summarize content (optional)
  • Searches within scraped pages for relevant sections
  • Returns structured, comprehensive research results


How to enable Advanced Web Search


Using the Playground

Advanced Web Search is called "Deep Research" in the Playground interface.

  1. Navigate to the Playground page
  2. Select your AI model
  3. Look for the rocket icon (🚀) with "Deep Research" label
  4. Click the Deep Research button to enable it
    • Active state: Button shows darker color and border
    • Inactive state: Button shows lighter color
  1. Type your research question
  2. Click Send


Note: You can enable both Web Search (globe icon) and Deep Research (rocket icon) at the same time for maximum research capability.


Using the Teammate Builder

For Teammates that need advanced research capabilities:

  1. Open the Teammate Builder
  2. Find "Web Search (Advanced)" in the Tools section
  3. Drag it onto the canvas
  4. Connect it to your Teammate node
  5. Configure the advanced options (see below)
  6. Save your Teammate


Configuring Advanced Web Search

Advanced Web Search has more options to customize your research process.


Basic Settings


Limit

What it does: Number of Google search results to retrieve

  • Range: 10 to 100 results
  • Default: 10 results
  • Recommendation: Use 10-20 for most research tasks

Additional Search Terms (Optional)

What it does: Same as Standard Web Search - refines your search

Examples:

  • site:edu - Only search educational institutions
  • filetype:pdf - Find PDF documents
  • 2024..2025 - Search within a date range


Web Scraping Settings

These options appear when you enable page scraping.


Scrape Result Pages?

What it does: Downloads and analyzes the full content of search result pages

  • Default: Off (disabled)
  • When to enable: When you need more than just search result snippets
  • Impact: Makes searches slower but provides deeper information


Maximum Scraped Pages

What it does: Limits how many pages to scrape (only visible when scraping is enabled)

  • Range: 1 to 100 pages
  • Default: 5 pages
  • Recommendation: Use 5-10 pages for balance between depth and speed
  • Important: More pages = slower search, but more comprehensive results


Matches Per Scraped Page

What it does: How many relevant sections to extract from each scraped page

  • Range: 1 to 20 sections
  • Default: 3 sections
  • Recommendation: Start with 3, increase if you need more detail
  • Impact: Higher numbers provide more context but slower processing


Summarization Settings

These options appear when both scraping and summarization are enabled.


Summarize Scraped Pages

What it does: Uses AI to create concise summaries of scraped content

  • Default: On (enabled) when scraping is enabled
  • Benefit: Reduces information overload and focuses on relevant details
  • Recommendation: Keep this enabled for most research tasks


Model Name

What it does: Selects which AI model to use for summarization (required when summarization is enabled)

  • Options: Dropdown shows all available AI models
  • Recommendation: Choose a model that balances speed and quality for your needs


Temperature

What it does: Controls how creative vs. focused the summaries are

  • Range: 0 to 1
  • Default: 0.3
  • Lower values (0-0.3): More focused, factual summaries
  • Higher values (0.7-1.0): More creative, varied summaries
  • Recommendation: Keep at 0.3 for research tasks requiring accuracy


Configuration examples for different use cases


Quick research (fast, less detailed)

✓ Scrape Result Pages: ON
- Maximum Scraped Pages: 3
- Matches Per Scraped Page: 2
✓ Summarize Scraped Pages: ON
- Temperature: 0.3


Comprehensive research (slower, very detailed)

✓ Scrape Result Pages: ON
- Maximum Scraped Pages: 10
- Matches Per Scraped Page: 5
✓ Summarize Scraped Pages: ON
- Temperature: 0.2


Fast facts only (no scraping)

✗ Scrape Result Pages: OFF
(All other options hidden)


What you'll get back

When Advanced Web Search runs with full features enabled, you'll receive:

  1. Search results with titles and links
  2. Original snippets from Google
  3. Extracted sections from scraped pages (if scraping enabled)
  4. AI-generated summaries of relevant content (if summarization enabled)
  5. Source citations for all information

The Teammate uses this comprehensive research to provide thorough, well-sourced answers.


Troubleshooting Advanced Web Search

Problem: Search is very slow

  • Cause: Scraping too many pages or extracting too many matches
  • Solution: Reduce "Maximum Scraped Pages" to 5 or fewer, or reduce "Matches Per Scraped Page" to 2-3

Problem: Getting too much information

  • Cause: Too many matches per page or too many pages being scraped
  • Solution: Lower the "Matches Per Scraped Page" setting, or enable "Summarize Scraped Pages" if it's off

Problem: Summaries are too creative or off-topic

  • Cause: Temperature setting is too high
  • Solution: Lower the Temperature to 0.2-0.3 for more focused summaries

Problem: Not enough detail in results

  • Cause: Not enough pages being scraped or not enough matches extracted
  • Solution: Increase "Maximum Scraped Pages" or "Matches Per Scraped Page" settings

Problem: Search fails with an error

  • Cause: Network timeout or API issue
  • Solution: Try again, or reduce the scope of your search (fewer pages, fewer matches)

Updated on: 03/11/2025

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