What (if anything) is the functionality difference between these 2 available search actions? Is one better than the other performance wise or is one better for certain use cases than the other?
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Hey @danimal Google search from the name uses Google search engine to search the web. While the OpenAI web search action utilizes Bing (Microsoft’s search engine).
I personally would go with Google since they have more market share and in turn more users.
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That was a doubt I had too, @Ned.Malki. Thanks also for the response. Regarding the choice between Google Search vs Perplexity, what would be your choice?
In the tests I did here with my Pickaxe, Perplexity’s search didn’t seem to work well with my prompt engineering/context, which asks it to only search online if it doesn’t find the solution in 1) Knowledge Base and 2) In the LLM’s pre-training data…
So when I replaced it with Google Search it worked.
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@hirbis depends on your use case. If you need a basic search conducted, then Google search action should be enough. If you need a complex and sequential search conducted then better to use Perplexity - but I personally prefer to set it up via a Make agent working via an MCP server (connected to the Pickaxe). This way I configure the search to work in tandem with other tasks (scenarios) essential to satisfying the user’s query.
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Thank you very much, @Ned.Malki !
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thanks a ton for this @Ned.Malki create rundown for me and appreciate the Make suggestion too
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