How does the Web Browsing feature work?

[endolith]

https://chatboxai.app/en

says:

Real-Time Web Search & Browsing

Get real-time information through AI-powered web search. Stay current with latest facts, news, and data from across the internet.

and the changelog says

v1.10.5 - 2025.03.10
Improved model setting UI
Added api version setting for azure openai
Fixed message formatting issue for some providers
Improved web search icon
v1.10.4 - 2025.03.01
Update web browsing search engine
v1.10.2 - 2025.02.28
Support web browsing for all provider

v1.10.4 - 2025.03.01

Update web browsing search engine

v1.10.2 - 2025.02.28

Support web browsing for all provider

v1.10.1 - 2025.02.28

Fix an issue with web browsing

v1.10.0 - 2025.02.24

Web browsing now supports any OpenAI-compatible model! This feature is ready to use without additional API configuration (desktop client only)

but I can't find explanation of how it actually works. Does the AI determine the search terms? Does the app just do a search based on user message and give it to the AI as context with a prompt explaining what it is? etc.

[Alauz]

I have the same issue, I think all the reasoning models I tried, including QwQ is unable to use web search in their queries.

[wuangmeugieuaixu]

I guess it's the latter one. The app search based on user prompt and give it to AI model along with user prompt