Glossary

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Web search API

An API that returns ranked results from a web index so a program can use them without running its own crawler.

Neural search

Search that ranks documents by their meaning, using numeric vectors, rather than by shared keywords alone.

Snippet

A short passage from a web page that a search result returns to show why the page matched the query.

Full-text extraction

Pulling the complete readable content of a web page, usually as clean text or Markdown.

Freshness

How recently a search index has seen a page, and how current the content it returns is.

Latency

The time between sending a request and receiving the full response.

Context window

The maximum amount of text a model can read in one request, measured in tokens.

Structured data

Information on a page in a machine-readable form, such as markup, tables or JSON fields.

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