# 2 November: Research searches the web for real, grades its own report, and always ends with a document 2026-11-02 · Product > Research now runs real searches, accepts only pages with a finding as sources, has a reviewer grade the draft, shows a progress card, and opens the report in the side column. An outside review graded one Research report 4 out of 10. 20 of its 41 sources were search result pages, and the vendor documentation on the actual mechanism was missing. Research changed in three ways on 2 November. *Research on 2 November in three steps.* Text version Search: real queries, evidence-only sources. Review: ranked hypotheses, a reviewer grade, up to two follow-up rounds. Delivery: progress card, report in the side column, export in five formats, and a report even if the model fails. ## Better sources The planner's queries are searched, and only the target pages are fetched. Search pages, home pages and login pages never count as sources. A page becomes a source only when a claim was extracted from it. Reports carry ranked hypotheses with what speaks for and against them, how to verify them, similar cases and an ordered list of next steps. ## A reviewer A reviewer grades each draft from 0 to 10 against a fixed rubric. Below 8, up to two follow-up rounds research exactly the named gaps, and the best draft wins. The grade and a factual method line go into the report. The grade is our own check, not an outside audit. ## What you see and what no longer fails A card shows five steps (plan, sources, write, verify, report) and one row per facet. The finished report opens in the right-hand column and can be downloaded as PDF, Word, Markdown, HTML or plain text. The export runs in your browser. One run had researched for 21 minutes and ended without a report, because the synthesis was cut at its length limit. A run now always ends with a document: one compact retry, then a report built from the extracted findings without a model. Search engines that block us are skipped for 30 minutes. We have not yet re-graded Research with an outside review since these changes.