How to do Web Research no code low cost?

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Hey there!

I am trying to create a block that searches for specific types of documents (like reliable docs from academic sources or credible companies), provides a description about the document and refer to a link.

I have tried several strategies:

  • Deep Research - likely the best, but high cost (in average 2,5 $)
  • Google Search - fast, easy, but no possibility to filter anything unless if I fine tune the query with the google syntax like site :. edu, etc. But even though it usually doesn`t provide good answers because there is no reasoning over the selection
  • function generation - I wanted to avoid create functions because they take a while, then I used the generator and didnt work OOB - Id rather need to investigate
  • Generate Text Block - Doesnt provide real usable URLs, the URLs links to broken pages or Not Found. I have the impression that this blocks just do the reasoning with trained data, but doesnt have the web search activated. Am I right?

That said, I`d like to know if:

  1. There is a way we can enable the web search on the generate text block?
  2. Would you have another alternative or suggestion for my goal?

BR,
Sara

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Hi @saramonteiro,

Thanks for the post!

Yes, you can with the Perplexity models like Sonar.

From what you’ve described, one option is to use the Google Search block to output all results, then follow it with a Generate Text block that filters and returns only the links that match your criteria for credible sources.

Let me know what you think!

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