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How Legora deployed a production-grade web search infrastructure globally
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How Legora deployed a production-grade web search infrastructure globally
Legora is an AI platform for legal work, supporting lawyers in research, review, and drafting across complex matters.
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Scale securely agentic systems with search intelligence
How a centralized intelligence layer scaled organisation-wide adoption of agents in a leading bank, without compromising on privacy and security controls.
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Web search APIs in Europe: Which one should you choose?
Choosing a web search provider in Europe is no longer just about relevance or latency. It’s about where data flows, who governs the infrastructure, and whether your AI stack can meet regulatory expectations without adding operational risk.
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Secure enterprise AI search for the second largest railway operator in the world
SNCF uses Linkup to power secure, source-controlled web search within an employee-facing agentic platform serving more than 150,000 employees, with private cloud-to-cloud connectivity, full control over retrieved domains through whitelisting and blacklisting, and load management at scale.
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Real-time social and market signals for AI investment agents
Barebone is a mobile-first investment AI agent that focuses on one thing: detecting emerging, viral narratives early on social media, and turning that into actionable investment research. In 2025, its internal fund posted exceptional returns of +77% ,4.7x the performance of the S&P 500 and more than 2x the performance of leading hedge funds
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Linkup powers real-time web access for LightOn's secure AI platform paradigm
We're excited to announce a strategic partnership with LightOn, a European leader in secure AI for sensitive data.
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Linkup: web search for AI agents, no human account needed
Today, Linkup adds support for x402, the open payment protocol developed by Coinbase.
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Your Open-Source Model's Knowledge Is Already Stale (how to fix it with Baseten + Linkup)
Open-source models can reason, write, and orchestrate complex tool calls – but their knowledge is frozen at training time. Baseten handles model serving and inference at scale; Linkup provides structured, real-time web access purpose-built for AI systems. Together, they give you the flexibility of open-source with the data freshness production applications require.
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Retrieval vs. Reasoning: Where Linkup and GPT fit in your AI stack
Search APIs like Linkup and answer engines like OpenAI operate at distinct layers of the AI stack. Modern systems combine both, but performance depends on identifying when the bottleneck is retrieval versus reasoning – and applying each layer accordingly
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Real-time corporate intelligence for cyber security breach detection
Detecting a leaked credential is only the beginning. The harder question is: how far does the exposure reach? GitGuardian integrated Linkup's search API into their incident response workflow to bring real-time corporate intelligence directly to the moment teams need it most
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Agentic corporate reputation monitoring with live web context
The biggest win is a reliable, dependable way for our agents to answer ad hoc questions with trusted citations. The ready-to-consume answers mean we save tokens compared to processing all of the content ourselves.
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Sales enablement with enriched pipeline data and real-time web intent
Linkup met our EU security requirements from the start. The API is easy to use and covers exactly what we need - multiple search and fetch modes, domain filters, date parameters, output types. It integrates naturally into our automation workflows and handles the volume we throw at it.
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What’s the Best Alternative to the Bing Search API?
Bing Search API is gone. Linkup is the upgrade.
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A Practical Guide to Visibility in AI Search
We keep getting asked how to win AI search – here’s what we’ve learned.
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Linkup raises $10M to build web search for AIs
We’re thrilled to announce that Linkup has raised a $10M seed round led by Gradient to build the Google Search for AIs and released /fast, the world's most accurate sub-second web search API
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Google vs. SERP APIs: Why Linkup Users Stay Safe
Why Linkup remains a safe and reliable alternative after Google's lawsuit against SerpApi
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Evaluating AI search systems on complex queries
Source diversity, hallucinations, entity coverage: we benchmarked AI search APIs on Linkup user's queries
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Retrieves live user feedback and market insights for customer support
How customer-facing chatbot teams use live user feedback and market signals to improve answer quality.
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Leverages live web data for reliable enterprise AI applications
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Scale Enterprise AI with Search Intelligence
After embedding Linkup into their AI advisory tool, this leading Big 4 firm saw output accuracy improve by 27%, internal adoption rise by 35%, and time-to-delivery drop by 17%, across thousands of consultants over six months.
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Linkup establishes SOTA performance on SimpleQA
Linkup has achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on OpenAI's SimpleQA benchmark, scoring 90.10%. This performance surpasses both traditional AI models (e.g. Grok 3) and competing web-connected solutions (e.g. Perplexity)
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Why Developers are Choosing the Linkup API Over Perplexity Sonar
A Comparison of Accuracy, Cost, and Why Sonar is Capped to Protect Perplexity's B2C Product
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Web RAG: From 6 Fragile Calls to 1 Reliable Endpoint
Modern internet retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) stacks often resemble a Rube Goldberg machine: half a dozen APIs stitched together just to turn a plain‑language question into an answer. Every extra hop adds dollars, seconds, and operational headache. What if you could collapse that entire chain into a single endpoint?
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How to Build a Secure GPT-Style Assistant in 2025: The Enterprise Roadmap
Enterprise AI copilots are no longer optional experiments, they are becoming mission-critical business tools. With the right roadmap, companies can move from concept to company-wide deployment in less than six months. The benefits are tangible: reduced time spent searching for information, faster compliance checks, and millions of dollars in productivity gains. More importantly, a secure, branded assistant helps employees make smarter, faster, and safer decisions by blending internal knowledge with real-time external intelligence.
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Best SERP APIs & Web Search APIs in 2025
If you’re building SEO tools, AI chatbots, or any application that depends on fresh and reliable search data, you’ll need a SERP API or a Web Search API. These tools act as the backbone for extracting and delivering search engine data in real time. In this guide, we’ll cover: What SERP APIs and Web Search APIs are, and how they differ How to evaluate providers and choose the right one The top API providers in 2025 (with pros, cons, and pricing)
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