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Web search lets a Persona look up current information and read result pages while it answers. It is built into webAI, so there is no account to connect. Add it to each Persona that should use it. A web search sends your search query off this device to a search service. Leave web search off a Persona when you want that Persona to answer without it. See the Privacy Policy. You ask in Chat. The model picks the tool. Tool names show in Recent tool actions. You do not type them.

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Add web search to a Persona

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Open Persona settings

Click Personas in the left sidebar. On the list, open the card menu and click Edit. Or open the Persona, then click the settings icon.
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Add Web search

Click Abilities. Under Connectors, click Add, then click Add on Web search.
3

Ask in Chat

Open that Persona and ask for something that needs current information. While it searches, the reply shows Searching: and your query, then Reading sources…. The answer can cite the pages it read.
Web search needs an internet connection. Without one, the Persona answers without searching.
To stop a Persona from searching, open Abilities again and uncheck Web search under Connectors.
webAI Guide searches the web without this step. It has no settings drawer.

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Searches the web for your query and returns matching pages with their titles and links, so the reply can cite them.