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Demystifying Agentic Search Engines

Agentic search engines—such as Google AI Mode, Perplexity, Bing Copilot, ChatGPT Search no longer means “type keywords, get ten blue links.” AI Search experience capable of understanding tasks, planning queries, calling tools, and synthesizing results and deliver a conversational response with inline citations, minimizing user effort. In this post, I’ll walk through the stack from bottom to top, how it crawls and indexes pages, how it retrieves and ranks information, and how recent features like RAG and Agentic search build upon these foundations.