Analysis Reveals GPT-5 Relies On Long Keyword Queries With Phrase Operators

I had a lot of fun analyzing how GPT-5 searches in BrowserComp-Plus. - Long queries with many terms - Keyword-oriented with query operators like phrase, "site:", - etc. - 98% of the traces contains at least one phrase search https://hornet.dev/blog/this-is-what-agentic-retrieval-looks-like