Verified research with free-search

Use search results to find pages, and take facts only from the pages. A snippet is an engine's summary of a page as it looked when it was crawled: it drops qualifiers, merges editions, and is often years old. Use this workflow whenever someone will rely on the answer.

Tool names below are the bare names on the search MCP server; your host may show them with a prefix.

0. Fix today's date

Know today's date before judging anything as current. Take it from your system context. Failing that, the retrieved … stamp on a fresh (uncached) search result is the server's clock. "Latest", "this year" and "upcoming" are relative to it. Do not infer the current year from search results or from memory.

1. Locate: search is for URLs only