Glossary

Terms

SERP API

A SERP API returns a search engine's results page as structured data.

AI search API

An AI search API runs a web search and returns sources, passages or an answer that a model can use.

RAG

Retrieval-augmented generation fetches relevant documents at question time and gives them to a model with the question.

MCP

The Model Context Protocol is an open standard that lets AI apps call outside tools and data sources through one interface.

BrowseComp

BrowseComp is a benchmark of questions that need several rounds of web browsing to answer.

Rate limit

A rate limit caps how many requests a key can send in a set period of time.

Grounding

Grounding ties a model's answer to retrieved sources that the answer can be checked against.

Web index

A web index is the stored collection of pages and documents that a search system ranks and returns.

Cite this entry