Google Search

Automate research with a Google Search

The "Google Search" Step allows you to automate a Google Search and pass the results as input into your Workflows.

Configuring a "Google Search" Step

Configuring the step is straightforward with simple dropdown menus. No JSON payload required.

Search Query

The "Search Query" input field is the exact phrase that will be Googled when the step runs, i.e. what do you want to search in Google?

To search from a specific site, you can type site:www.example.com followed by your search phrase

Search Parameters

Configure your search parameters using the dropdown menus:

• Region: Select the geographic region for your search results

• Number of Results: Choose how many results to return

• Similar/Omitted Results: Enable or disable filtering

Advanced Configuration: For more complex use cases, you can still configure parameters based on the SERP API documentation using JSON format.

To dynamically set variables as query or search parameters referencing an input (defined in the "Start" step) or output variable (generated by any step), you will need to use Liquid syntax:

Output Types

The following Output Types are currently supported by the "Google Search" Step:

Links Only: A list with links to the organic URL results.

[
  "https://www.zdnet.com/article/six-skills-you-need-to-become-an-ai-prompt-engineer/",
  "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_engineering",
  "https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-explainers/what-is-prompt-engineering",
  "https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/definition/AI-prompt-engineer",
  "https://www.datacamp.com/blog/what-is-prompt-engineering-the-future-of-ai-communication",
  "https://www.promptingguide.ai/",
  "https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/prompt-engineering/",
  "https://hbr.org/2023/06/ai-prompt-engineering-isnt-the-future",
  "https://www.iit.edu/blog/unlock-career-opportunities-ai-how-become-ai-prompt-engineer",
  "https://www.coursera.org/articles/how-to-become-a-prompt-engineer"
]

Title, Snippet, Links (Markdown): Title, Snippet and Links for each organic result in Markdown format.

**Six skills you need to become an AI prompt engineer**
Six skills you need to become an AI prompt engineer · 1. Understand AI, ML, and NLP · 2. Define problem statements clearly and specify detailed ...
https://www.zdnet.com/article/six-skills-you-need-to-become-an-ai-prompt-engineer/


**Prompt engineering**
Prompt engineering is the process of structuring text that can be interpreted and understood by a generative AI model. ... A prompt is natural language text ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_engineering


**What is prompt engineering?**
Prompt engineering is the practice of designing inputs for generative AI tools that will produce optimal outputs.
https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-explainers/what-is-prompt-engineering

...

Organic Results (JSON): Organic results in JSON format.

[
  {
    "position": 1,
    "title": "Six skills you need to become an AI prompt engineer",
    "link": "https://www.zdnet.com/article/six-skills-you-need-to-become-an-ai-prompt-engineer/",
    "displayed_link": "https://www.zdnet.com › ... › Artificial Intelligence",
    "favicon": "https://serpapi.com/searches/65579a96e815af000b7dab68/images/a5422e713e6bc3f59a76b766eb80117740cc3058315f42d3df7f4337510ce3b6.png",
    "date": "Oct 3, 2023",
    "snippet": "Six skills you need to become an AI prompt engineer · 1. Understand AI, ML, and NLP · 2. Define problem statements clearly and specify detailed ...",
    "snippet_highlighted_words": [
      "prompt engineer"
    ],
    "about_page_link": "https://www.google.com/search?q=About+https://www.zdnet.com/article/six-skills-you-need-to-become-an-ai-prompt-engineer/&tbm=ilp",
    "about_page_serpapi_link": "https://serpapi.com/search.json?engine=google_about_this_result&google_domain=google.com&q=About+https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zdnet.com%2Farticle%2Fsix-skills-you-need-to-become-an-ai-prompt-engineer%2F",
    "cached_page_link": "https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QnozTEs7HoMJ:https://www.zdnet.com/article/six-skills-you-need-to-become-an-ai-prompt-engineer/&hl=en&gl=us",
    "source": "ZDNet"
  },
  ...
]

Raw: Complete results from Serp API in JSON format.

{
  "search_metadata": {
    "id": "65ad949daf5af14fb1f744b3",
    "status": "Success",
    "json_endpoint": "https://serpapi.com/searches/c058cc17ce2a376c/65ad949daf5af14fb1f744b3.json",
    "created_at": "2024-01-21 22:03:09 UTC",
    "processed_at": "2024-01-21 22:03:09 UTC",
    "google_url": "https://www.google.com/search?q=How+does+an+LLM+work%3F%0A%0A&oq=How+does+an+LLM+work%3F%0A%0A&num=1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8",
    "raw_html_file": "https://serpapi.com/searches/c058cc17ce2a376c/65ad949daf5af14fb1f744b3.html",
    "total_time_taken": 2.5
  },
  "search_parameters": {
    "engine": "google",
    "q": "How does an LLM work?\n\n",
    "google_domain": "google.com",
    "num": "1",
    "device": "desktop"
  },
  ...