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462 points • by tosh • today at 10:47 AM • 210 comments • view on HN

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OutOfHere • today at 1:52 PM

This has got to be a serious antitrust violation. First Cloudflare bans all the other bots, then it allows its liaised bots.

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locitra • today at 3:55 PM

Search is an interesting building block for agentic systems. The challenge isn't just retrieving results, but deciding what to search for, evaluating the results, and determining when the information is sufficient to move to the next step.

As AI systems increasingly use search as a tool, the quality and reliability of that tool become an important part of the overall agent workflow.