Web Intelligence
Web Intelligence lets your SmartForms and CoPilots pull fresh context from the web. Use it when your tool needs current facts, or when users paste a URL.
Pick the right feature
Web Searching (Internet Access)
Use this when you need quick, up-to-date facts. It pulls information from the main Google results page. It does not click into results or scrape pages.
Good for:
“What’s the latest news about ___?”
Company snapshots, basic public info, quick research
Reducing outdated answers and hallucinations
Web Crawling (URL scraping)
Use this when you need the actual text from a specific page. Your tool crawls a single URL and brings that page’s text into the prompt.
Good for:
Summarizing an article someone links
Turning a blog post into email/social variations
Extracting details from a product or landing page
Quick links
Best practices
Ask for sources. Have the tool cite the URL or query it used.
Keep tasks narrow. “Summarize this URL in 5 bullets” beats “analyze everything.”
Verify before acting. Treat web results as input, not truth.
Known limits (so you can design around them)
Web Searching only sees the search results page.
Web Crawling reads text content from a URL. It may skip paywalled, blocked, or heavy JS-rendered pages.
Both features can fail if the source blocks bots or rate limits.
Common patterns
SmartForm “Research + Write”
Input: topic or brand name
Web Searching: pull current context
Output: brief + draft content
CoPilot “Paste a link, get help”
User drops a URL
Web Crawling: ingest the page
CoPilot: answers questions using that page as context
Safety and compliance notes
Only crawl content you’re allowed to access and reuse.
Avoid collecting sensitive personal data from the web.
If you sell outputs, add your own review step.
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