Web answers you can actually trust
Goal. Get current, grounded answers from the live web — and learn to check the sources Gemini cites instead of taking the text on faith.
What are the most recent (2025–2026) clinical trial results for lecanemab in early Alzheimer's disease? Give me the headline outcomes and link the primary sources you used.
Ask for recent, factual information and explicitly request sources. Some Gemini responses are grounded on live Google Search results.
- 1Ask for current facts and request sources. Some Gemini responses are grounded on Google Search results — for time-sensitive or factual questions, add "cite your sources" so the answer comes with links you can open.
- 2Open the links and read the primary source. Grounding reduces hallucination but does not eliminate it — treat the cited pages, not Gemini's paraphrase, as the truth. If a claim has no link, be skeptical of it.
- 3Trick: cross-check a claim by pasting it back. When one answer makes a strong claim, start a fresh question — "Verify this specific statement and show the exact source sentence" — to catch confident-but-wrong paraphrases before you cite them.
You'll see. A current-events answer with clickable source links — and the habit of opening at least one before believing the summary.
Cost. Free. Search grounding is available on the free tier; it's about how you check answers, not which plan you're on.
Takeaway. For anything factual or recent, ask Gemini to ground in Search and cite sources — then verify the primary source yourself. The links are the deliverable, not the prose.