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Live web search

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Definition

Live web search is a model fetching current web pages at the moment it answers, rather than relying only on what it absorbed during training.

Why it matters

It changes the timescale of GEO from release cycles to days, and it makes results verifiable — a web-backed answer usually shows which pages it used.

How it is used

Record web-enabled and non-web-enabled runs separately. Averaging them together hides how fast new content actually reaches answers.

Related terms

Concepts that only make sense together

Retrieval candidate pool

The retrieval candidate pool is the set of documents a model pulls in before composing an answer. Most of them do not end up being used, and most are never shown to the user.

 LLMO Large Language Model Optimization

LLMO is a broader label for work aimed at how large language models understand and reference a brand, including both live-retrieval answers and what the model has absorbed from training data.

 Re-measurement

Re-measurement is re-running the frozen question set under the same conditions on a schedule, and reporting the difference from the previous round.

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