Web Search in Chat
Combine live web search results with your private knowledge for up-to-date, document-grounded answers.
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
- In any Super Chat conversation, toggle the Web Search option (globe icon), or type
@and choose the web search option - Type your question
- Elephas searches the web, retrieves relevant results, and combines them with your workspace context to generate an answer
Live web results aren't limited to Super Chat — they're also available in Super Command and in Snippets. You can also import a web-search workflow from the library and trigger it with @ (see Agents and Workflows).
Read and chat with a web page (paste a URL)
Paste a website URL directly into Super Chat or a Super Brain chat and Elephas fetches the page and extracts its readable text, so you can ask about it without searching. Try prompts like “Summarize this page” or “What are the key points?”
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.