---
title: Google Search
description: Search the web
---

import { BlockInfoCard } from "@/components/ui/block-info-card"

<BlockInfoCard 
  type="google_search"
  color="#E0E0E0"
/>

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[Google Search](https://www.google.com) is the world's most widely used web search engine, making it easy to find information, discover new content, and answer questions in real time. With advanced search algorithms, Google Search helps you quickly locate web pages, images, news, and more using simple or complex queries.

In Sim, the Google Search integration allows your agents to search the web and retrieve live information as part of automated workflows. This enables powerful use cases such as automated research, fact-checking, knowledge synthesis, and dynamic content discovery. By connecting Sim with Google Search, your agents can perform queries, process and analyze web results, and incorporate the latest information into their decisions—without manual effort. Enhance your workflows with always up-to-date knowledge from across the internet.
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## Usage Instructions

Integrate Google Search into the workflow. Can search the web.



## Tools

### `google_search`

Search the web with the Custom Search API

#### Input

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
| --------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
| `query` | string | Yes | The search query to execute |
| `searchEngineId` | string | Yes | Custom Search Engine ID |
| `num` | string | No | Number of results to return \(default: 10, max: 10\) |
| `apiKey` | string | Yes | Google API key |

#### Output

| Parameter | Type | Description |
| --------- | ---- | ----------- |
| `items` | array | Array of search results from Google |
|   ↳ `title` | string | Title of the search result |
|   ↳ `link` | string | URL of the search result |
|   ↳ `snippet` | string | Snippet or description of the search result |
|   ↳ `displayLink` | string | Display URL \(abbreviated form\) |
|   ↳ `pagemap` | object | PageMap information for the result \(structured data\) |
| `searchInformation` | object | Information about the search query and results |
|   ↳ `totalResults` | string | Total number of search results available |
|   ↳ `searchTime` | number | Time taken to perform the search in seconds |
|   ↳ `formattedSearchTime` | string | Formatted search time for display |
|   ↳ `formattedTotalResults` | string | Formatted total results count for display |


