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How Copilot Searches the Web — Copilot pour les espaces étudiants

Module 2: Live Research & Sourcing — Use Copilot to search the live internet and automatically cite its sources.

When Copilot needs to find up-to-date information, what search engine does it silently query?
Bing — Microsoft owns this search engine.
How does Copilot process the results from its live web search?
It simultaneously reads multiple websites and synthesizes them into a single, cohesive answer. — It reads the content of the pages, not just the titles.
What is a major limitation that Copilot's live web search helps bypass?
The AI model's training data cutoff date. — AI models don't naturally know what happened yesterday.