Understand the
agent search stack

A practical guide to search APIs, specialist data, embeddings, retrieval and reranking.

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Lay of the Land 94 tools and sources to explore

The encyclopedia of agentic search

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See what happens inside the search stack. Choose a concept, change the example, and follow the evidence.

Where can the answer come from?

Source selection decides where an agent looks: the public web, a specialist collection, or an internal corpus. Coverage includes which records are searchable, how much content is accessible, and how recently it was updated. Finding a document in an index does not necessarily mean receiving its full text.

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The webPages · news · docs
Specialist sourcesPapers · filings · records
Your dataFiles · messages · tables
Retrieve from the right collection

Start with current web sources. Check publication dates and follow links to the original announcement.

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The main stages of a search system

How agent search works

Follow the path from a question to source-backed evidence, and see where each search tool fits.

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