# Live web search and sources Search the web from a conversation and review citations alongside the answer. Grounded web search retrieves current pages and checks that cited quotations match their source text. - **Direct web retrieval:** Searches ZeroLog's own index and fetches pages you or the model name directly. Results depend on what could be retrieved. - **Guarded fetching:** A fetch follows your account's outbound-network rules. Every redirect is checked again (at most three), internal and private addresses are refused, and a page over 2 MiB or a fetch over 20 seconds fails. A failed page is recorded with its reason instead of being hidden. - **Your snapshots stay yours:** A fetched page is kept as a snapshot for your chat. Pages fetched for you are not added to the shared search index. - **Supported citations:** A citation is marked supported only if its quote (at least 12 characters) appears in the page text we retrieved (ignoring case and whitespace differences). A quote that does not appear is flagged as unsupported. Search results and citations depend on the sources available at the time of the request. Review cited pages before relying on a result. ## From question to a checked citation Mermaid source of the diagram on this page: ```mermaid %% Grounded search: from question to checked citation. Facts from server/research.js (fetchSource, verifyClaim), searchrouter.js. flowchart TB q["Your question"] f["Find pages
ZeroLog's own index, or
URLs you or the model name"] g["Fetch under your account's
outbound rules, each redirect
checked, 2 MiB, 20 s"] snap["Snapshot kept for your chat
not added to the shared index"] m["Model answers with exact quotes
(at most 25 words)"] c{"Quote found in the
retrieved page text?"} ok["Supported"]:::hot bad["Unsupported, flagged
with the reason"] q --> f --> g --> snap --> m --> c c -->|yes| ok c -->|no| bad classDef hot stroke:#8f7ac9 ```