Web Search in Chat

Web search in chat

Elephas can search the live web and include results alongside your document knowledge. This is useful when you need current information that your indexed documents may not contain.

How to use web search

1. In any Super Chat conversation, toggle the Web Search option (globe icon)
2. Type your question
3. Elephas searches the web, retrieves relevant results, and combines them with your workspace context to generate an answer

When to use web search

• Getting current information (news, stock prices, recent events)
• Verifying facts against live sources
• Researching topics not covered by your documents
• Combining your private knowledge with public information

How it works with your documents

When web search is enabled, Elephas retrieves both web results and relevant passages from your workspace. The AI response synthesizes both sources. Citations indicate whether each reference comes from the web or your documents.

Privacy note

Web search queries are sent to the search provider to retrieve results. Your document content is not shared with the search provider. Only the query text (your question or a search-optimized version of it) is sent externally.