application
10 minSearch Grounding
grounding
web-search
hallucination
Tools:Google AI Studio
Connect the model to the internet to fetch up-to-date information and compare results with and without grounding.
Step 1 of 3
Search OFF
Turn OFF 'Grounding with Google Search'. Ask a question about a very recent event (e.g., 'What is the weather in London today?'). Note the lack of answer or hallucination.
Search ON
Turn ON 'Grounding with Google Search'. Ask the same question again.
Prompt Control
Try explicitly instructing the model: 'Search for the latest news on [topic]' vs 'Answer this using only your internal knowledge'.