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New Feature: Web Search Mode

What's New

Backboard now supports live web search as a first-class mode — allowing developers to combine real-time data with persistent memory and model routing in a single API call for more contextual, up-to-date AI responses.


How It Works

  • Set web_search: true in your chat completion request.

  • Backboard queries the web, ranks results by relevance, and injects them as context alongside your memory and RAG data.

  • Results are automatically attributed with source URLs and freshness timestamps.

  • Combine with memory for responses that are both grounded in real-time data and personalized.


Configuration Options

  • Search depth: Choose between quick (3 results) or deep (10+ results) modes.

  • Recency filter: Restrict results to last hour, day, week, month, or all time.

  • Domain filtering: Allowlist or blocklist specific domains.

  • Language preference: Target results in specific languages.

  • Region targeting: Localize results by geographic region.


Use Cases

  • Customer support: Answer questions about recent product updates or outages.

  • Research agents: Gather real-time data alongside stored knowledge.

  • News-aware assistants: Keep responses current without manual updates.

  • Competitive intelligence: Monitor market changes in real-time.


Pricing

Web search is billed at $0.005 per search query. Results are cached for 1 hour to reduce costs on repeated similar queries.

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