Features
Web Search & Citations
Overview
Torki can search the web to answer questions about recent events, current data or anything that changed after its training — then tells you which pages it read.
How it works
- You ask a question that depends on something current.
- Torki decides by itself that it needs the web, and searches.
- It reads the results and writes the answer, naming its sources in the text.
- A Sources panel opens on the right with a card for each page it used.
What it needs
Included on every plan, including Free. Ordinary web search is not metered separately — it is part of the message you send.
Get started
1. Just ask
There is no switch that forces an ordinary web search. Torki reaches for the web when a question depends on something current — news, prices, releases, live data — or when you ask it to look something up. For general knowledge it answers directly.
2. Read the citations
Torki cites its sources by name in the text of the answer — for example "According to Reuters…" — rather than as numbered footnotes. The answer body itself contains no links.
3. Open the Sources panel
To open a source, use the Sources panel: click any card there, or click the purple Sources (N) pill under the answer to reopen the panel after you have closed it.
Every card carries a badge showing where it came from:
- WEB — general web results from Torki's own privacy-respecting search.
- NEWS — current news articles and breaking stories.
- WIKI — encyclopedia entries for background knowledge.
Good to know
If you want to be certain Torki goes and reads the web, use Research instead: click the round + button to the left of the message box (its tooltip reads "Tools") and choose Research. That runs Deep Research, which draws on a separate allowance and is not included on the Free plan.
If an answer looks wrong, open the Sources panel and read the cards. Torki summarises what it found, and a summary is only as good as the pages behind it. If a source looks thin or out of date, say so and ask Torki to look again.
FAQ
Can I make Torki search every time?
Not for ordinary search — there is no toggle. Use Research if you need to be sure.
Why are there no links in the answer?
Torki is told not to put links in the reply, so the text stays readable and the sources live in one place. The cards in the Sources panel are the links.
Does searching cost extra?
No. An answer that searched the web costs the same one message as any other.
Do the sources come with a PDF export?
No. Download PDF saves the conversation text; the source list is not included.