SEO
Real-time search
Fetching the live web beyond cutoff. How ChatGPT Search and Perplexity stay current — when they bother.
Your last-mod and sitemaps help. Being in the news or on Reddit helps more for breaking topics.
Caches lie. Test with today’s date in the prompt.
Examples
- A status incident. Real-time systems cite status.io and a Reddit megathread. Your pretty incident marketing page is late.
Related terms
Content freshness
How recently a page was substantively updated. Retrievers like dates. Fake dates are a fast way to burn trust.
Knowledge cutoff
The date after which the model’s weights don’t include the web. Anything newer needs browsing or RAG.
RAG (retrieval-augmented generation)
RAG means the model looks up documents at answer time instead of relying only on what it memorized in training.
FAQ
How real is real-time? +
Minutes to days. Never assume seconds unless you measured that engine.
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