Comment by hbarka
8 hours ago
> Claude Code rarely searches the web while Codex almost always does
I’m trying to understand why they are opposite. I think it is true, I find myself giving a secondary prompt to Claude to “research this” and only then will it fetch. Codex is bang on fetching already.
OpenAI is close to Microsoft so I assume that they have preferential and cheap access to the Bing search index.
Claude is independent.
Gemini should have Google search.
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Gemini CLI (at least mine) does web research all the time. I've noticed it hitting my own pages (I have to ask very specific things). I don't have any global or project rules to encourage that behavior.
That’s a deliberate effort on Google’s part. Integrating AI and search is obviously pretty critical to their business.
Must be system prompts and tool instructions guiding the agents differently.