Web search

A model answers from what it learned during training, which stops at a date and knows nothing about your situation. Web Search lets the model look things up live before replying.

Guide: Research a topic with web search.

What it needs

1. Your organisation has connected a search provider. When it has not, Web Search is simply absent.
2. You are in Advanced mode.
3. Either a plain model, where the Tools menu beside the paperclip lists it, or an agent with Web Search among its capabilities — see Agents.

Turn it on

What happens when it is on

The model turns your question into one or more searches, reads the top results, and writes its answer from them with numbered citations that link back to each page.

Search shines for anything newer than the model's training — news, prices, versions, live figures — and for answers you want to be able to verify. It adds nothing to brainstorming, creative writing, or a question whose source material you already pasted in.

Tips

• Be specific. "Compare the 2025 camera reviews of phone A and phone B" beats "which phone is better?"
• Ask for sources — "cite each claim" — and drill in: "read source 2 again; what does it say about deadlines?"
• Cross-check anything you will act on.

Privacy

Whatever the model needs to look up becomes a search query that leaves NuFi for the search provider. Turn search off for confidential prompts. The security checks described in How your data is protected still run on what comes back: text inside a fetched page is treated as untrusted.

If Web Search is not in the menu

In order of likelihood: your organisation has not connected a provider (the case on chat.nufi.me today); you are in Basic mode; you are chatting with an agent that does not have the capability enabled. The last two you can fix yourself.