google_tool_web_search: Google web search (grounding) tool

In ellmer: Chat with Large Language Models

Google web search (grounding) tool

Description

Enables Gemini models to search the web for up-to-date information and ground responses with citations to sources. The model automatically decides when (and how) to search the web based on your prompt. Search results are incorporated into the response with grounding metadata including source URLs and titles.

Learn more in https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/google-search.

Usage

google_tool_web_search()

See Also

Other built-in tools: claude_tool_web_fetch(), claude_tool_web_search(), google_tool_web_fetch(), openai_tool_web_search()

Examples

## Not run: 
chat <- chat_google_gemini()
chat$register_tool(google_tool_web_search())
chat$chat("What was in the news today?")
chat$chat("What's the biggest news in the economy?")

## End(Not run)

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