Google FastSearch - Faster Than Google Search

Did you know Google has a technology called FastSearch? No, not the one from the early 2000s, but its own Google FastSearch. Google said FastSearch is faster than Google Search, its main search results technology.

FastSearch is used by Gemini for grounding purposes, to validate the Gemini responses. It is faster than Google Search because it retrieves fewer documents than normal Google Search. Yes, this can result in lower quality than Google Search's fully ranked web results but it is good enough for grounding.

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