Which AI model searches the web better on a food-buyer social media question?
We gave five AI models the same question with web search on, and Qwen3.8-Max answered twice. This page counts the websites each answer cites and sets that against the answer's length. We have not yet opened the cited links to see whether they back the answers. It compares the models, not their advice.
As asked, word for word.
Find out where the food buyers exist on the social media?
Output condition
- Include fact links after the paragraph or sentence
The question names no country and does not say whether the buyers shop for themselves or buy for a business. Its output condition asks for a fact link after each paragraph or sentence. It tests whether a model finds pages on food buyers' use of social media and puts the links beside its claims.
Which model researched further?
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| Answer | Words | Websites cited |
|---|
More websites means the model looked further. It does not mean the answer is right. That needs the link check below, which has not run for this question.
Do the cited pages back what the models wrote? Not checked yet.
In a checked comparison, we open every cited link and compare the page with the passage that cites it. For this question that has not happened. The numbers below say how much there is to check.
Cited links · one square per link, none opened yet
Until then, treat every figure in these answers as a lead, not a fact. Open the page before a number goes into your plan. To see what a finished check looks like, read the comparison How effective are interpreters and translation tools at trade-show booths in Japan?.
What this means when you pick a model for research.
The same model gave two very different answers.
Qwen3.8-Max ran twice at one setting. Run 1 is 624 words with 15 websites, each written out as a "Fact Link" note in the text. Run 2 is 5,333 words, more than seven times the next longest answer, and has no link. It cites by number, as in [[7,44]], and gives no source list.
The answers chose different scopes.
GPT-6.1 Sol says it focused mainly on Japan. Sonnet 5.5 says its data is mostly from the U.S. and Canada. The websites the answers cite differ in scope as well as in number.
Some of the websites are the platforms themselves.
Six of GPT-6.1 Sol's 12 websites are LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, or X addresses. The count lists fr.linkedin.com, jp.linkedin.com, and my.linkedin.com as three websites.
Every answer, with its numbers.
| Model | Setting | Asked | Words | Websites | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sonnet 5.5 | High | 6 Oct 2026 | 394 | 6 | 6 |
| GPT-6.1 Sol | High | 6 Oct 2026 | 654 | 12 | 17 |
| Gemini 3.6 | Thinking | 6 Oct 2026 | 457 | 6 | 6 |
| Grok 4.7 | Fast | 6 Oct 2026 | 708 | 12 | 17 |
| Qwen3.8-Max | Thinking | 6 Oct 2026 | 624 | 15 | 15 |
| Qwen3.8-Max | Thinking | 6 Oct 2026 | 5,333 | – |
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