I may be missing something so apologies if I'm telling you something you already know but: there are plenty of web search APIs for agents - the Brave one is the one I use: https://brave.com/search/api/
Perhaps DeepSeek Search will be a strong competitor for google, from the link: DeepSeek Search is an AI-native, general-purpose search engine that indexes hundreds of billions of web pages. It supports multilingual search and returns highly relevant, authoritative, and up-to-date results in real time.
Other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129045
The native web search api is 10x cheaper than OpenAIs. I hope they will release the web search api as a standalone API.
I may be missing something so apologies if I'm telling you something you already know but: there are plenty of web search APIs for agents - the Brave one is the one I use: https://brave.com/search/api/
Hugging Face link: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
Performance charts and benchmarks are here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepSeek/comments/1x84wke/deepseek_...
Perhaps DeepSeek Search will be a strong competitor for google, from the link: DeepSeek Search is an AI-native, general-purpose search engine that indexes hundreds of billions of web pages. It supports multilingual search and returns highly relevant, authoritative, and up-to-date results in real time.