Volcengine Launches Doubao Search Service to Empower AI Agents with Real-Time Data
Volcengine has launched the Doubao Search Service, a dedicated search engine designed to provide AI Agents with real-time, multi-modal, and structured information retrieval. The service integrates general web data, industry knowledge, and exclusive ByteDance content, directly outputting markdown and structured formats that agents can easily process. This service addresses critical Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) challenges, such as filtering out SEO spam and delivering structured, credible data. It provides developers in the Chinese AI ecosystem with a robust tool to build more reliable, factually accurate, and context-aware AI applications. The service supports integration via API, Skill, and Model Context Protocol (MCP), and offers 500 free search queries per month before transitioning to a pay-as-you-go model. It has demonstrated strong performance in benchmarks like SimpleQA for factuality, FreshQA for fresh knowledge, and BrowseComp-ZH for Chinese web browsing.
## BACKGROUND
AI Agents often rely on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to access real-time web information, but raw search engine results are frequently cluttered with low-quality content and unstructured formats. Benchmarks like SimpleQA, FreshQA, and BrowseComp-ZH are used to evaluate how effectively language models retrieve factual, up-to-date, and localized web information to answer complex queries.