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title: About Deep Search
description: What Deep Search is, how it differs from regular search, and when to use it to get direct answers from your selected data sources.
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# About Deep Search

Deep Search is designed to answer specific questions — not just return a list of matching documents. Instead of browsing through results and reading articles yourself, you pose a question and the system searches your selected data sources automatically, retrieves the most relevant content, and produces a focused answer grounded in those sources.

Navigate to [News → Deep Search]({APP_HOST}/documents/deepsearch) to get started.

## How It Differs from Regular Search

[Regular search](../search/about-search) retrieves documents that match your query and presents them as a list for you to read. Deep Search goes further: it runs an automated, multi-step investigation across the data sources you choose, synthesizes the findings, and delivers a direct response to your question.

| | Search | Deep Search |
|---|---|---|
| **Input** | Keywords or phrases | A natural-language question |
| **Output** | A list of matching documents | A focused answer with supporting sources |
| **Process** | Single query against a data source | Multi-step automated investigation |
| **Best for** | Browsing and exploring | Getting a specific answer quickly |

## What Deep Search Is Good At

- Answering factual questions about recent events covered by your selected data sources.
- Synthesizing information scattered across multiple documents into a single coherent response.
- Quickly establishing what is known about a topic within a bounded set of sources.

## Important Limitation

> ⚠️ **Deep Search only knows what your selected data sources contain.** The answer is generated exclusively from the documents retrieved during the search — it is not supplemented by general AI knowledge. If the selected sources do not contain enough relevant information, the answer may be incomplete or inconclusive. Always review the cited sources to verify the response.

For a step-by-step guide on running a Deep Search, see [Using Deep Search](using-deep-search).