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Gemini + Enable [https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/google-search Grounding with Google Search] | Gemini + Enable [https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/google-search Grounding with Google Search] | ||
* Filter domains: Not supported {{exclaim}} | * Filter domains: Not supported {{exclaim}} | ||
* Filter date: Not supported {{exclaim}} | * Filter date: Not supported {{exclaim}} | ||
* Localize search results: | * Localize search results: | ||
Gemini + Enable [https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/url-context URL context] feature | Gemini + Enable [https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/url-context URL context] feature | ||
* Filter domains: ✅ Available. Can analyze up to 20 URLs per request as defined in prompt content<ref>[https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/url-context URL context | Gemini API | Google AI for Developers]</ref> | * Filter domains: ✅ Available. Can analyze up to 20 URLs per request as defined in prompt content<ref>[https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/url-context URL context | Gemini API | Google AI for Developers]</ref> | ||
* Filter date: Not supported {{exclaim}} | * Filter date: Not supported {{exclaim}} | ||
* Localize search results: | * Localize search results: | ||
* Comment: I tested AIStudio by restricting company news searches to 20 specified news websites. Despite this constraint, the results still included content from unrelated domains. | * Comment: I tested AIStudio by restricting company news searches to 20 specified news websites. Despite this constraint, the results still included content from unrelated domains. | ||
Revision as of 16:22, 22 January 2026
This comparison examines the search capabilities and filtering options available across major AI language model search APIs.
Comparison
OpenAI Web search - OpenAI API
- Filter domains: ✅ Available
- Filter date: Not supported
However, prompt-based date filtering works effectively. Testing with GPT-5.1 and GPT-5.2 successfully returned news results matching the specified date criteria. - Localize search results: ✅ Available "To refine search results based on geography, you can specify an approximate user location using country, city, region, and/or timezone."
Claude AI Search Web search tool - Anthropic
- Filter domains: ✅ Available
- Filter date: Not supported While date filtering is unavailable via API parameters, prompt-based filtering proved unreliable in testing—often returning no results or articles outside the requested date range.
- Localize search results: ✅ Available
Gemini + Enable Grounding with Google Search
- Filter domains: Not supported
- Filter date: Not supported
- Localize search results:
Gemini + Enable URL context feature
- Filter domains: ✅ Available. Can analyze up to 20 URLs per request as defined in prompt content[1]
- Filter date: Not supported
- Localize search results:
- Comment: I tested AIStudio by restricting company news searches to 20 specified news websites. Despite this constraint, the results still included content from unrelated domains.
Perplexity Sonar [Last visited: 2026-01-21]
- Filter domains: ✅ Available. Supports maximum of 10 domains[2]
- Filter date: ✅ Available[3] While a time range can be specified via parameters (last_updated_after_filter, after_date, search_recency_filter), testing on sonar-pro model showed significant inconsistencies—publication dates of results frequently fell outside the specified range.
- Localize search results: ✅ Available[4]
- Filter domains: ✅ Available with three parameters
- Parameter: allowed_websites
- Parameter: excluded_websites
- Parameter: sources. You also can customize data sources including web, X search, news, and RSS feeds.
- Filter date: ✅ Available with from_date and to_date parameters. Testing on grok-4-1-fast showed minor inconsistencies—1 out of 4 news results had a date outside the specified range.
- Localize search results: ✅ Available with country parameter.