DeepSeek opens its Search and Fetch API
DeepSeek opened developer access to the search and fetch services behind its own web and app experiences. The vendor describes a multilingual index spanning hundreds of billions of pages and says the service filters SEO spam, generative-engine manipulation and low-quality AI-generated content.
Why it matters: Developers gain another retrieval surface for grounded agents and research workflows, but the index, ranking and filtering layers are controlled by one vendor. Source diversity, freshness, omission and prompt-injection behavior need measurement before the…