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# Cloudsway Search

## SEO

- **Title:** Cloudsway Search | Real-time Search and Structured Web Data for AI Agents
- **Description:** Cloudsway Search gives AI agents real-time search, source-backed web data, multilingual retrieval, and structured content extraction through SmartSearch and Reader APIs.
- **Primary keyword:** real-time search API for AI agents
- **Secondary keywords:** web data API, source-backed search, RAG search API, web content extraction API, deep research agent search

## One-line definition

Search is a data access layer for AI agents that need reliable external context — combining **SmartSearch** (live source discovery) and **Reader** (structured content extraction).

## When to use Search

Use Search when you **already have an agent** (or RAG / copilot / research tool) and need:

- Fresh, source-backed web information
- Multilingual and regional coverage
- Structured outputs for LLM and agent workflows
- Full-page or document extraction without building crawlers

## Hero

- **H1:** Large-scale, real-time web search engine for AI agents
- **Subtitle:** High-availability, low-latency structured search APIs that help AI agents access real-world information, reduce hallucinations, and make grounded decisions.

## SmartSearch vs Reader

| Component       | Role                                                                | Best for                                                                                          |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **SmartSearch** | Find fresh, relevant, source-backed information from live sources   | RAG context, deep research, market intelligence, regulatory tracking, source discovery            |
| **Reader**      | Extract and normalize complex content into machine-readable context | Web page reading, PDF extraction, table extraction, document understanding, content preprocessing |

**Rule of thumb:** Use SmartSearch to **discover** sources; use Reader to **read and structure** content inside those sources.

## SmartSearch — key capabilities

- Agent-friendly structured search results (snippets, metadata, content blocks)
- Direct answers grounded in retrieved sources
- Intelligent content slicing for LLM-ready fragments
- Strong natural-language query understanding
- High-quality, authoritative, dynamically updated sources
- 30+ major global languages; cross-language retrieval when needed
- Integrates as a search skill inside agent systems
- Production-grade: high availability, low latency, high QPS

## Reader — key capabilities

- Extracts clean text, metadata, tables, links, headings from web pages, PDFs, images, rich media
- LLM-ready content normalization (removes nav clutter and noise)
- Multi-format understanding across common enterprise and open-web content
- Deep page and document reading beyond search snippets
- Multilingual content processing
- Simple API — no browsers, crawlers, parsers, or proxy infrastructure to maintain
- Production-ready extraction pipeline

## FAQ

### What is Cloudsway Search?

A data access layer combining SmartSearch (agent-ready search) and Reader (structured extraction from pages, PDFs, images, tables, and rich media) for RAG, deep research, copilots, and task automation.

### What is SmartSearch?

A high-quality search API for AI agents: natural-language queries, fresh authoritative sources, direct answers, LLM-ready snippets, and structured results for grounding and task execution.

### What makes SmartSearch different from traditional search APIs?

Traditional APIs return links or short snippets. SmartSearch is built for agent workflows: conversational query understanding, structured outputs, direct answers, and content fragments agents can consume directly.

### Can SmartSearch answer user queries directly?

Yes. It can return direct answers grounded in retrieved sources while keeping source context for verification and citation.

### Does SmartSearch support multilingual search?

Yes. 30+ major global languages; cross-language results (including English) when they better satisfy intent.

### What is Reader?

An agent-ready content extraction API that converts web pages, PDFs, images, tables, and rich media into structured LLM-ready outputs.

### How is Reader different from SmartSearch?

SmartSearch **finds** sources; Reader **structures content inside** sources. Use both in sequence for research and RAG pipelines.

### What types of content can Reader process?

Web pages, PDFs, images, tables, and rich media.

### Do developers need to manage browsers, crawlers, parsers, or proxies?

No. Reader exposes extraction through a simple API.

## Related products

- **ScaleBox** — secure execution when agents must run code, process files, or execute workflows
- **Agent API** — managed layer that includes search, sandbox, memory, and deliverables in one API

## Links

- Human page: https://www.cloudsway.ai/product/search
- Home context: https://www.cloudsway.ai/ai/home.md
- API documentation: https://www.cloudsway.ai/docs/llms.txt