# Santiago says agents search the web poorly and offers a fix

> Original title: Your agent sucks at searching the web. I don't care what prompt you are using; you are just getting mediocre results.

- Source: Santiago
- Published: 2026-10-23T13:42:32.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/tgl6243ybqpmu1ivs16lhx6vt
- Original: https://x.com/svpino/status/2113627134917066993

## Summary

Santiago (@svpino) says agents return mediocre web search results regardless of prompt wording. He says the problem can be fixed but the fix is not described in the post.

## Post

Your agent sucks at searching the web. I don't care what prompt you are using; you are just getting mediocre results.

Here is how you can fix it.

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