Introducing Web Search API via AI Gateway
Fun fact: when you use an agent and it needs to fetch a live web page, the agent usually just guesses the URL of the page and then makes a tool call to curl it.
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Key points
- This is why you’ll sometimes see web fetches come back with a 404 Not Found, which happens if the agent incorrectly guesses the URL of that information.
- Today, we’re announcing Cloudflare’s partnership with web search providers to bring you grounded intelligence via AI Gateway.
- Integrating Web Search API directly into your inference pipeline equips your agents with a dynamic context layer.
- Using Web Search API via AI Gateway
Sources (1)
- [1]Introducing Web Search API via AI GatewayCloudflare Blog: AI · Oct 2, 01:28 PM
Fun fact: when you use an agent and it needs to fetch a live web page, the agent usually just guesses the URL of the page and then makes a tool call to curl it.
This is why you’ll sometimes see web fetches come back with a 404 Not Found, which happens if the agent incorrectly guesses the URL of that information.
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