Web search

Ask Nock to look something up when the answer depends on current public information. A useful request includes the subject, location, and time period: “Find the opening hours for this museum this Sunday, using its official website.” Those details reduce ambiguous results and make the answer easier to verify.

Web search is a built-in lookup tool. It does not require connecting a personal search account. The surrounding agent conversation still depends on Nock account access and usage limits; a built-in search tool is not a separate promise of unlimited AI use.

Ask for an answer you can check

Name the kind of source you need, such as an official support page, a product manual, or the venue itself. Ask Nock to include the source and date when freshness matters. If a snippet is incomplete, ask it to open and read the result before drawing a conclusion.

For comparisons, give the criteria: “Compare these two products for weight, battery life, and supported operating systems.” Check that each fact refers to the same product generation. Search can surface outdated pages alongside current ones.

Search results appear as sources associated with the answer. Open the underlying page for exact wording, eligibility, pricing, or a decision that matters. A fluent summary can still misread a source or combine incompatible dates.

Search and browsing are different

Search returns titles, links, and short snippets. Reading a full result is another step. It does not use your usual browser’s signed-in session and cannot retrieve private account content just because you are signed in elsewhere.

Use The browser when you want a visible page you can navigate. Use an available App connection for supported account data. Weather has its own forecast tool, which provides structured location and forecast information.

Understand freshness and failures

The search implementation tries Nock’s hosted service and can fall back to another public search service. It returns a bounded set of results, not every matching page. Repeated queries can use an in-memory result cache for up to 30 minutes. Repeating exactly the same request immediately may therefore produce the same sources.

If results are empty, first check internet access. Try a more precise query with the organization or product name. If you already know the correct page, provide its address and ask Nock to read that page. An empty search is not evidence that the information does not exist.

Know what is shared

Search words go to the search service and its upstream sources. Visited pages receive normal web requests. Your question and retrieved information can become model context. Avoid putting private records, passwords, or access tokens into a public search query. For signed-in material, review Privacy before requesting a summary.