Friday, October 2, 2026
SearchGet the Brief

Reporting and field guides on AI search, AEO, and GEO

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Platforms

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot, and the search APIs and crawlers that feed AI answers, covered as they change.

  1. Platforms

    Cloudflare Adds a Web Search API to AI Gateway

    Developers can now pull live web results into model calls through Cloudflare, with Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup as launch partners. The company is pairing it with rules for how search crawlers should behave.

    By Alex Brufsky ·

  2. Platforms

    Perplexity Cuts Search API Prices for AI Agents With "Fast Search"

    The new option runs on Photon, a retrieval engine Perplexity rebuilt in Rust. It costs a fifth of standard search and answers in about 160 milliseconds, with measurable trade-offs on hard questions.

    By Alex Brufsky ·