[simonw]

I couldn't see anything in the documentation about whether or not it's allowed to permanently store the results coming back from search.

Presumably this is using Brave under the hood, same as Claude's search feature via the Anthropic apps?

[minimaxir]

Given the context/use of encrypted_index and encrypted_context, I suspect search results are temporarily cached.

[simonw]

Right, but are there any restrictions on what I can do with them?

Google Gemini has some: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/grounding/search-sugge...

OpenAI has some rules too: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/tools-web-search#out...

> "When displaying web results or information contained in web results to end users, inline citations must be made clearly visible and clickable in your user interface."

I'm used to search APIs coming with BIG sets of rules on how you can use the results. I'd be surprised but happy if Anthropic didn't have any.

The Brave Search API is a great example of this: https://brave.com/search/api/

They have a special, much more expensive tier called "Data w/ storage rights" which is $45 CPM, compared to $5 CPM for the tier that doesn't include those storage rights.

[istjohn]

Google's restrictions are outlandish: "[You] will not modify, or intersperse any other content with, the Grounded Results or Search Suggestions..."

[minimaxir]

The API response actually contains the full HTML to include.

[istjohn]

It just goes counter to the way I think about LLMs. It assumes end-products will merely be thin wrappers around an API, perhaps with some custom prompts. It's like thinking of the internet as a faster telegraph, instead of understanding that it's an entirely new paradigm. The most interesting applications of AI will use search as just one ingredient, one input, that will be sliced, diced, and pureed as it is combined with half a dozen other sources of information.

When your intelligent email client uses Gemini to identify the sender of an email as someone in the industry your B2B company serves, deciding to flag the email as important, where is that HTML supposed to go? Where does it go in a product that generates slide show lesson plans? What if I'm using it to generate audio or video? What if a digital assistant uses Gemini as a tool a few dozen times early in a complex 10,000 step workflow that was kicked off by me asking it to create three proposals for family vacations complete with a three 5-minute video presentations on each option? What if my product is helping candidates write tailored cover letters?

It's bad optics for a company just ruled to have acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in "general search services and general text advertising," but worse, it lacks imagination.

[simonw]

I'm not quite sure how I should handle that in my CLI tool!

[lemming]

Trafilatura to markdown? But yeah, likely to be clunky.