Web Search Techniques

Shared knowledge base for research:quick-searcher and research:deep-researcher. Scope: web-only. Covers query formulation, source authority, tool usage, bot-block fallback, and anti-loop rules.

Query Formulation

Extract core concepts from the question before querying:

• Identify synonyms and domain terminology (e.g. "authentication": auth, login, signin, session, token, jwt, oauth, credentials)
• Account for abbreviations and full forms
• Add the year ("2026") when the query has temporal dependency
• Add "official" or "documentation" to push toward authoritative sources
• Quote exact phrases for precise matches
• Use site: to restrict to known-good domains (e.g. site:developer.mozilla.org)

Start broad, narrow progressively. Overly specific first queries miss adjacent information. Each refinement round incorporates terms surfaced in prior results.

Source Authority Ranking

Rank every source before citing: